From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: vmalloc with GFP_NOFS
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 16:13:34 +0200
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On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 03:42:22PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 24-04-18 13:25:42, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [...]
> > > As a suggestion, could you take
> > > documentation about how to convert to the memalloc_nofs_{save,restore}
> > > scope api (which I think you've written about e-mails at length
> > > before), and put that into a file in Documentation/core-api?
> > 
> > I can.
> 
> Does something like the below sound reasonable/helpful?

Sounds good to me and matches how we've been using the vmalloc/nofs so
far.