On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 07:22:25AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Easier to handle those in vmalloc() itself. > > I think there were some attempts in the past but some of the code paths > are burried too deep and adding gfp_mask all the way down there seemed > like a major surgery. No need to propagate gfp_mask - the same trick XFS is doing right now can be done in vmalloc.c in a couple of places and that's it; I'll resurrect the patches and post them tomorrow after I get some sleep. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>