Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Allow calling vfree() from non-schedulable context.

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To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Allow calling vfree() from non-schedulable context.
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:20:01 +0200
Cc: mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>, Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx>, John Dias <joaodias@xxxxxxxxxx>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Maybe the right fix is to drop any support for non-user context in
vfree and call vfree_deferred explicitly?

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