On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 1:41 PM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/16/2018 10:20 PM, Shakeel Butt wrote: > > ___GFP_COLD and ___GFP_OTHER_NODE were removed but their bits were > > stranded. Slide existing gfp masks to make those two bits available. > Well, there are already available for hypothetical new flags. Is there > anything that benefits from a smaller __GFP_BITS_SHIFT? I am prototyping to pass along the type of kmem allocation e.g. page table, vmalloc, stack e.t.c. (still very preliminary).
