Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751401AbbEBJFi (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2015 05:05:38 -0400 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:36208 "EHLO mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750807AbbEBJFf (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2015 05:05:35 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,354,1427752800"; d="scan'208";a="138609823" Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 11:05:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Julia Lawall X-X-Sender: jll@localhost6.localdomain6 To: Dan Carpenter cc: "Drokin, Oleg" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Julia Lawall , "HPDD-discuss@lists.01.org" , "Simmons, James A." Subject: Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 2/11] Staging: lustre: fld: Use kzalloc and kfree In-Reply-To: <20150502081416.GG16501@mwanda> Message-ID: References: <1430495482-933-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <1430495482-933-11-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <20150501200221.GF14154@mwanda> <9f81478864bc422c9a59cddbaa723052@EXCHCS32.ornl.gov> <20150501204930.GB2265@kroah.com> <20150501205835.GA2692@kroah.com> <20150502081416.GG16501@mwanda> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1383 Lines: 43 On Sat, 2 May 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 09:13:11PM +0000, Drokin, Oleg wrote: > > >> The patch was submitted. > > >> But it depends on a symbol that's not exported. > > >> I was not able to change that. > > >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg83997.html > > > > > > But you were given a hint on how to change that :) > > > > Well, the hint amounted to "don't do vmalloc if you cannot live with the > > GFP_KERNEL" allocations. > > > > Which email is that? > > I only see where David says to implement vmalloc_node_gfp() and the talk > was about if that makes sense from a style perspective and then dies. > > Anyway, this only seems to affect ptlrpc_alloc_rqbd() since I think > that's the only place which calls OBD_CPT_ALLOC_PTR(). The rest can use > __vmalloc(). I think you mean "that's the only place which calls OBD_CPT_ALLOC_LARGE". julia > > regards, > dan carpenter > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- 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/