On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:44:20AM +0100, Carlos Maiolino wrote: > Hi, > > in this new series, we remove most of the remaining kmem_* wrappers. > > All of the wrappers being removed in this series can be directly replaced by > generic kernel kmalloc()/kzalloc() interface. > > Only interface kept is kmem_alloc() but has been converted into a local helper. > > This series should be applied on top of my previous series aiming to clean up > our memory allocation interface. > > > Darrick, I believe this is slightly different from what you suggested > previously, about converting kmem_* interfaces to use GFP flags directly. At > least I read that as keeping current kmem_* interface, and getting rid of KM_* > flags now. > > But, I believe these patches does not change any allocation logic, and after the > series we are left with fewer users of KM_* flags users to get rid of, which > IMHO will be easier. And also I already had the patches mostly done :) > > Let me know if this is ok for you. > > > Carlos Maiolino (5): > xfs: remove kmem_zone_zalloc() > xfs: Remove kmem_zone_alloc() wrapper > xfs: remove kmem_zalloc() wrapper > xfs: Remove kmem_realloc > xfs: Convert kmem_alloc() users Hmmm, just noticed that this never got merged. Whatever happened to this patchset? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
