Re: [PATCH 10/17] jbd2: replace __get_free_pages() with kmalloc()

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 09:33:32AM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 10:05:52 -0400
> "Theodore Tso" <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> ...
> > I suppose we could do it with kmalloc() with some flags which to
> > prevent forced reclaim / compaction, and if that fails, then fall back
> > to vmalloc().  Is there a better way?
> 
> There is already kvalloc().
> I'm not sure how hard that tries to get kmalloc() to succeed.

Please don't try to help.