Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] mm/vmalloc: be more explicit about supported gfp flags.

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 11/22/21 16:32, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> b7d90e7a5ea8 ("mm/vmalloc: be more explicit about supported gfp flags")
> has been merged prematurely without the rest of the series and without
> addressed review feedback from Neil. Fix that up now. Only wording is
> changed slightly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c | 14 ++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index b6aed4f94a85..b1c115ec13be 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -3021,12 +3021,14 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>   *
>   * Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
>   * allocator with @gfp_mask flags. Please note that the full set of gfp
> - * flags are not supported. GFP_KERNEL would be a preferred allocation mode
> - * but GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO are supported as well. Zone modifiers are not
> - * supported. From the reclaim modifiers__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is required (aka
> - * GFP_NOWAIT is not supported) and only __GFP_NOFAIL is supported (aka
> - * __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL are not supported).
> - * __GFP_NOWARN can be used to suppress error messages about failures.
> + * flags are not supported. GFP_KERNEL, GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO are all
> + * supported.
> + * Zone modifiers are not supported. From the reclaim modifiers
> + * __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is required (aka GFP_NOWAIT is not supported)
> + * and only __GFP_NOFAIL is supported (i.e. __GFP_NORETRY and
> + * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL are not supported).
> + *
> + * __GFP_NOWARN can be used to suppress failures messages.
>   *
>   * Map them into contiguous kernel virtual space, using a pagetable
>   * protection of @prot.
>