Re: Handling of GFP_WAIT in the slub and slab allocators

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On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Nicolas Palix wrote:
>
>> I notice that in the SLAB allocator, local_irq_save and
>> local_irq_restore are called in slab_alloc_node and slab_alloc without
>> checking the GFP_WAIT bit of the flags parameter.
>
> SLAB does the same as SLUB. Have a look at mm/slab.c:cache_grow()

I agree and it is the same for mm/slab.c:fallback_alloc() but
why is it not also required for mm/slab.c:slab_alloc_node()
and mm/slab.c:slab_alloc() which both manipulate the local irqs?



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Nicolas Palix

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