On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 11:32 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > So I have folded the following to the patch 1. It is in line with > kvmalloc and hopefully at least tell more than the current code. [] > diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c [] > @@ -1741,6 +1741,13 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, > * Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level > * allocator with @gfp_mask flags. Map them into contiguous > * kernel virtual space, using a pagetable protection of @prot. > + * > + * Reclaim modifiers in @gfp_mask - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_REPEAT > + * and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported Maybe add a BUILD_BUG or a WARN_ON_ONCE to catch new occurrences? -- 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>