Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 2/11] Staging: lustre: fld: Use kzalloc and kfree

On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 09:13:11PM +0000, Drokin, Oleg wrote: > >> The patch was submitted. > >> But it depends on a symbol that's not exported. > >> I was not able to change that. > >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg83997.html > > > > But you were given a hint on how to change that :) > > Well, the hint amounted to "don't do vmalloc if you cannot live with the > GFP_KERNEL" allocations. > Which email is that? I only see where David says to implement vmalloc_node_gfp() and the talk was about if that makes sense from a style perspective and then dies. Anyway, this only seems to affect ptlrpc_alloc_rqbd() since I think that's the only place which calls OBD_CPT_ALLOC_PTR(). The rest can use __vmalloc().

regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html