On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It really might be very good to create a "struct alloc_info" that > contains those shared arguments, and just pass a (const) pointer to > that around. [ .. ] > > Ugh. I think I'll try looking at that tomorrow. I did look at it, but the thing is horrible. I started on this something like ten times, and always ended up running away screaming. Some things are truly fixed (notably "order"), but most things end up changing subtly halfway through the callchain. I might look at it some more later, but people may have noticed that I decided to just apply Minchan's original patch in the meantime. I'll make an rc8 this weekend.. Linus -- 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>