Re: [PATCH 1/3] percpu_counter: add @gfp to percpu_counter_init()
From: David Miller
Date: Mon Aug 25 2014 - 20:46:58 EST
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:43:30 -0400
> Percpu allocator now supports allocation mask. Add @gfp to
> percpu_counter_init() so that !GFP_KERNEL allocation masks can be used
> with percpu_counters too.
>
> We could have left percpu_counter_init() alone and added
> percpu_counter_init_gfp(); however, the number of users isn't that
> high and introducing _gfp variants to all percpu data structures would
> be quite ugly, so let's just do the conversion. This is the one with
> the most users. Other percpu data structures are a lot easier to
> convert.
>
> This patch doesn't make any functional difference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
For networking bits:
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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