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2008/11/17 David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>:
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> 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.

Thanks.

I think to __GFP_ZERO or __GFP_COLD etc..
but that also is right, imho.