Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751527AbbECDMm (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2015 23:12:42 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:2965 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751318AbbECDMe convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2015 23:12:34 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,358,1427785200"; d="scan'208";a="719777652" From: "Drokin, Oleg" To: Dan Carpenter CC: 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 Thread-Topic: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 2/11] Staging: lustre: fld: Use kzalloc and kfree Thread-Index: AQHQhEnF1Z60vF9Ok063U3coNmW0Gp1oCamAgAADvwCAAADeAIAAAayAgAAEFICAALi1AIABPgaA Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 03:12:31 +0000 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> In-Reply-To: <20150502081416.GG16501@mwanda> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.252.196.182] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <4D7D94C1B66E3A40A619214EECD835B1@intel.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1217 Lines: 36 Hello! On May 2, 2015, at 4:14 AM, 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? Ah, my memory is playing tricks, it appears. There was just a pointer to the "other discussions" where this advice was given it appears. > 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 guess so. Bye, Oleg-- 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/