Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v15 4/8] mm: hugetlb: alloc the vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB page

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 16-02-21 11:44:34, Mike Kravetz wrote:
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> If we are not going to do the allocations under the lock, then we will need
> to either preallocate or take the workqueue approach.

We can still drop the lock temporarily right? As we already do before
calling destroy_compound_gigantic_page...

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs