Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754649Ab3FKPXW (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:23:22 -0400 Received: from a193-30.smtp-out.amazonses.com ([199.255.193.30]:56442 "EHLO a193-30.smtp-out.amazonses.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752857Ab3FKPXV (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:23:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:23:19 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter To: Pekka Enberg cc: Sasha Levin , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: prevent warnings when allocating with __GFP_NOWARN In-Reply-To: <51B73F38.6040802@kernel.org> Message-ID: <0000013f33d58923-88767793-2187-476d-b500-dba3c22607aa-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <1370891880-2644-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> <51B62F6B.8040308@oracle.com> <0000013f3075f90d-735942a8-b4b8-413f-a09e-57d1de0c4974-000000@email.amazonses.com> <51B67553.6020205@oracle.com> <51B72323.8040207@oracle.com> <0000013f33cdc631-eadb07d1-ef08-4e2c-a218-1997eb86cde9-000000@email.amazonses.com> <51B73F38.6040802@kernel.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SES-Outgoing: 199.255.193.30 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 508 Lines: 13 On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Pekka Enberg wrote: > So you're OK with going forward with Sasha's patch? It's needed > because __GFP_NOWARN was specifically added there to fix this > issue earlier. Why dont we fix the call site to use vmalloc instead for larger allocs? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/