Re: [PATCH] percpu: plumb gfp flag to pcpu_get_pages

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Hi Dennis,

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 1:26 PM Dennis Zhou <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 01:03:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 17:31:47 -0800 Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > __alloc_percpu_gfp() can be called from atomic context, so, make
> > > pcpu_get_pages use the gfp provided to the higher layer.
> >
> > Does this fix any user-visible issues?
>
> Sorry for not getting to this earlier. I'm currently traveling. I
> respoeded on the patch itself. Do you mind unqueuing? I explain in more
> detail on the patch, but __alloc_percpu_gfp() will never call
> pcpu_get_pages() when called as not GFP_KERNEL.
>

Thanks for the explanation. Andrew, please ignore/drop this patch.

thanks,
Shakeel




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