On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Tejun Heo wrote: > That would be nice but currently, we have no user which needs anything > other than GFP_KERNEL although lack of users could have been caused by > the lack of the functionality and the non-atomic irq disabled state is > an exception case which is handled differently by might_sleep() too. > So, I'm not sure whether adding GFP_* parameter would worth the > effort. Also, adding that is a bit too late for 2.6.32 at this point.
As I have said repeately before: We need this for dynamic DMA slab creation in SLUB. Since you got it already halfway in: Complete it and I can get rid of the static percpu definitions that I had to add to be able to use the new percpu allocator. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
