Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove hardcoding of ___GFP_xxx bitmasks

From: Igor Stoppa
Date: Fri Apr 28 2017 - 03:44:27 EST




On 28/04/17 10:40, Michal Hocko wrote:

> Do not add a new zone, really. What you seem to be looking for is an
> allocator on top of the page/memblock allocator which does write
> protection on top. I understand that you would like to avoid object
> management duplication but I am not really sure how much you can re-use
> what slab allocators do already, anyway. I will respond to the original
> thread to not mix things together.

I'm writing an alternative different proposal, let's call it last attempt.

Should be ready in a few minutes.

thanks, igor