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Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:20:57 -0600
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] mm: kmemleak: replace __GFP_NOFAIL to GFP_NOWAIT in
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On Mon 23-04-18 12:17:32, Chunyu Hu wrote:
[...]
> So if there is a new flag, it would be the 25th bits.

No new flags please. Can you simply store a simple bool into fail_page_alloc
and have save/restore api for that?

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs