From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754055AbYKQHQL (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:16:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752114AbYKQHP5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:15:57 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36489 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751878AbYKQHP4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:15:56 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:15:55 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20081116.231555.190117597.davem@davemloft.net> To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, arjan@infradead.org, airlied@gmail.com, menage@google.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com, jack@suse.cz, jes@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dada1@cosmosbay.com, adobriyan@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: introduce simple_malloc()/simple_free() From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20081116231301.c6b0da95.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20081117142539.9b2c6bfc.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <2f11576a0811162243r7527d271ya8ab2fc3a9be9f7d@mail.gmail.com> <20081116231301.c6b0da95.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andrew Morton Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:13:01 -0800 > In fact it's not immediately clear why __vmalloc() takes a gfp_t > argument either? Probably for things like GFP_DMA32, GFP_HIGHMEM, et al.