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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] lib/rhashtable: simplify bucket_table_alloc()
To:     Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
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From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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On 06/21/2018 02:28 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> As of ce91f6ee5 (mm: kvmalloc does not fallback to vmalloc for incompatible gfp flag),
> we can simplify the caller and trust kvzalloc() to just do the right thing.

Hi,
JFYI, we are using 12-digit (12-character) commit IDs nowadays...


> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
> ---
>  lib/rhashtable.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
> index 9427b5766134..26c9cd8a985a 100644
> --- a/lib/rhashtable.c
> +++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
> @@ -175,10 +175,7 @@ static struct bucket_table *bucket_table_alloc(struct rhashtable *ht,
>  	int i;
>  
>  	size = sizeof(*tbl) + nbuckets * sizeof(tbl->buckets[0]);
> -	if (gfp != GFP_KERNEL)
> -		tbl = kzalloc(size, gfp | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY);
> -	else
> -		tbl = kvzalloc(size, gfp);
> +	tbl = kvzalloc(size, gfp);
>  
>  	size = nbuckets;
>  
> 


-- 
~Randy