On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 7:50 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 02:49:29PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > As far as I can see, > > > > #define GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ACCOUNT) > > > > So what's the difference between: > > > > (GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO) & ~__GFP_ACCOUNT > > > > and > > > > (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO) & ~__GFP_ACCOUNT > > Nothing. But there's a huge difference in the other parts of that same > file where GFP_ACCOUNT is _not_ used. > > I think this unification is too small to bother with. Something I've > had on my todo list for some time and have not done anything about > is to actually unify all of the architecture pte/pmd/... allocations. > There are tricks some architectures use that others would benefit from. Can you explain a bit more on this? If this is too low priority on your todo list then maybe me or someone else can pick that up. Shakeel _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
