Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759284AbZJGO1B (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:27:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759245AbZJGO1A (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:27:00 -0400 Received: from vpn.id2.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:7419 "EHLO vpn.id2.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759228AbZJGO1A convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:27:00 -0400 Message-Id: <4ACCC12E020000780001882B@vpn.id2.novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 8.0.1 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:26:22 +0100 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Hugh Dickins" Cc: , "Andrew Morton" , Subject: Re: [PATCH] adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() invocation (v2) References: <4ACCA98202000078000187DF@vpn.id2.novell.com> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 803 Lines: 19 >>> Hugh Dickins 07.10.09 15:55 >>> >On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> - avoid wasting more precious resources (DMA or DMA32 pools), when >> being called through vmalloc_32{,_user}() >> - explicitly allow using high memory here even if the outer allocation >> request doesn't allow it, unless is collides with __GFP_ZERO > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > that's no longer an issue in the patch Oops. Will send out a corrected version in a second. Jan -- 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/