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Date:   Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:41:27 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] docs: core-api: add memory allocation guide
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:33:06 +0300
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> How about:
> 
>     ``GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE`` does not require that allocated memory
>     will be directly accessible by the kernel and implies that the
>     data is movable.
> 
>     ``GFP_HIGHUSER`` means that the allocated memory is not movable,
>     but it is not required to be directly accessible by the kernel. An
>     example may be a hardware allocation that maps data directly into
>     userspace but has no addressing limitations.
> 
>     ``GFP_USER`` means that the allocated memory is not movable and it
>     must be directly accessible by the kernel

Sounds good to me.

Thanks,

jon