Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc.c: add a schedule point to vmalloc()

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index f64632b67196..05a145ed1332 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -1602,6 +1602,7 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  			goto fail;
>  		}
>  		area->pages[i] = page;
> +		cond_resched();
>  	}
>  
>  	if (map_vm_area(area, prot, &pages))

Now that we pass the gfp mask into vmalloc() and all allocations aren't 
inherently GFP_KERNEL, I think this should only be done for (gfp_mask & 
__GFP_WAIT).
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