Re: [PATCH 4/7] dm: introduce dm_kvmalloc

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On Mon, 6 Jul 2015, Mike Snitzer wrote:

> In general I like what you've done with this patchset _except_ I'm not
> seeing why dm_kvmalloc() should be in DM at all.  It should probably be
> elevated to an kvmalloc() export from mm/util.c and include/linux/mm.h
> along-side kvfree().

If memory management maintainers agree to put it into mm core, it would be 
nice. If not, put it into device mapper.

Mikulas

> David and/or Andrew, what do you think?
> 
> FYI, full patchset starts here:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-July/msg00004.html
> 
> (but Mikulas didn't chain the reply so the 7 patches aren't properly
> threaded/navigated, you can dig out the patches toward the top of the
> list here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dm-devel/list/ )
> 

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