On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:26 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, I guess I'll just add __GFP_COMP so I at least don't get spammed with > useless bug reports. Thanks, I appreciate it. > But I don't think it's in any way acceptable to change the semantics of the > kernel's page allocator but only under some obscure config option, don't > document it anywhere, ignore the known problems for years, say that the option > is broken anyway so it shouldn't be used, and have to exchange 15 emails to get > anything resembling an explanation. I understand what you mean, yeah. I'm sorry I wasn't clear about it earlier. What do you think might help the situation as far as documentation? -- Kees Cook