From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87F493E866F for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:21:59 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773253319; cv=none; b=lRvvCtwuohDDN/YlzG1Wli3OgmffNYKESlNeDga+BhkQhq+nOzL7dleqsK73D7h5TsNcLHbgoOS5yT7T8CquPeC7z5vKoP+dMPrzfLkzts/T4/AubuHnsB1qgzlnhXaeI8lUtWSbP1dy11huRvQ3nzRTx6lVZu5Mzt7m02IqWzE= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773253319; c=relaxed/simple; bh=uJL5nolgHMfKqwJE4prr8rQoMXwMjSQPaEOX8Cr/DgA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References: Mime-Version:Content-Type; b=b++1blt7C2ejnKhDmwBwyq9GmWZEdg9Fp36dcsSfMnB4Sm6u9mZp1Q/CKsV1T62j1P8aLpRhdUJmy50J2NxSIVq43nla/AyLYwW6EYwkJVved1+mDSDOc912BX8fuiClzfJPKzY6bOxr7fAo3qZIpLE+Zq6gKrwG+tjxTgOvMqk= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b=1ZTLDV5b; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b="1ZTLDV5b" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DFE1AC19421; Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:21:58 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1773253319; bh=uJL5nolgHMfKqwJE4prr8rQoMXwMjSQPaEOX8Cr/DgA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=1ZTLDV5bI+S0u+Qpa+2tMbyDnzC0XBuUpKTFw/hKMpA7av/Lc9SSd7LdpKpiYGvF8 P+YBWf/9Vfg7ajQCvBnae2oug3n/heE8ROBI7oPKqkMXzNAzNRc7J01Smyk1m5vShd 0nb3CRfu5aRYatJIefpkXMRzLnhmpvt1/HjZ5L7Q= Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:21:58 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Michal Hocko Cc: Uladzislau Rezki , Mikulas Patocka , linux-mm@kvack.org, Vishal Moola , Baoquan He , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: support __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL and __GFP_NORETRY Message-Id: <20260311112158.7e423b5d82b3c03ac327e572@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20260302114740.2668450-1-urezki@gmail.com> <20260302114740.2668450-2-urezki@gmail.com> <20260310155914.9c03a9f4cc2f433fc741e222@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:45:38 +0100 Michal Hocko wrote: > > IMO, we should drop the patch as it is not complete and replace it by the > > Yes, that patch is not really correct as it allows to trigger OOM killer > during pte allocation. > > > [PATCH] vmalloc: support __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL and __GFP_NORETRY > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260302114740.2668450-2-urezki@gmail.com/ > > ack OK, "mm/vmalloc: fix incorrect size reporting on allocation failure" and "vmalloc: support __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL and __GFP_NORETRY" have been in mm-new and mm-unstable for a week now.