Re: [PATCH v2] slab,slub: ignore __GFP_WAIT if we're booting or suspending

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Ben,

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Benjamin
Herrenschmidt<benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I really think we are looking for trouble (and a lot of hidden bugs) by
> trying to "fix" all callers, in addition to making some code like
> vmalloc() more failure prone because it's unconditionally changed from
> GFP_KERNEL to GFP_NOWAIT.

It's a new API function vmalloc_node_boot() that uses GFP_NOWAIT so I
don't share your concern that it's error prone.

                                              Pekka
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