On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:19 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed 25-03-20 17:12:14, glider@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > This flag is to be used by KMSAN runtime to mark that newly created
> > memory pages don't need KMSAN metadata backing them.
>
> I really dislike an idea of the gfp flag. If you need some form of
> exclusion for kmsan allocations then follow the pattern of memalloc_no{fs,io}_{save,restore}
> History tells us that single usecase gfp flags are too tempting to abuse
> and using incorrectly.
Great idea, will do!
Guess PF_ flags isn't a scarce resource?
