On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:09:58PM -0600, Dennis Zhou wrote: > The prior patch added support for passing gfp flags through to the > underlying allocators. This patch allows users to pass along gfp flags > (currently only __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN) to the underlying > allocators. This should allow users to decide if they are ok with > failing allocations recovering in a more graceful way. > > Additionally, gfp passing was done as additional flags in the previous > patch. Instead, change this to caller passed semantics. GFP_KERNEL is > also removed as the default flag. It continues to be used for internally > caused underlying percpu allocations. > > V2: > Removed gfp_percpu_mask in favor of doing it inline. > Removed GFP_KERNEL as a default flag for __alloc_percpu_gfp. > > Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@xxxxxxxxx> > Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied 1-3 to percpu/for-4.16-fixes. Thanks, Dennis. -- tejun -- 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>
