Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Add memalloc_nowait_{save,restore}

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On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 1:27 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > There are already memalloc_noreclaim_{save,restore} which imply __GFP_MEMALLOC:
> >
> >   memalloc_noreclaim_save - Marks implicit __GFP_MEMALLOC scope.
>
> .. and those are horrible misnamed :(

What about renaming it to memalloc_memalloc_save ?

>
> If we can't even keep our APIs consistently name, who is supposed
> to understand all this?
>

-- 
Regards
Yafang





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