On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 24-04-18 11:30:40, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > > On Mon 23-04-18 20:25:15, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > > > > Fixing __vmalloc code > > > > is easy and it doesn't require cooperation with maintainers. > > > > > > But it is a hack against the intention of the scope api. > > > > It is not! > > This discussion simply doesn't make much sense it seems. The scope API > is to document the scope of the reclaim recursion critical section. That > certainly is not a utility function like vmalloc. That 15-line __vmalloc bugfix doesn't prevent you (or any other kernel developer) from converting the code to the scope API. You make nonsensical excuses. Mikulas
