On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 03:10:20PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> > > __vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying > allocation. This API is quite popular > $ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l > 77 > > the only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want > to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no > reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages > which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space. About half of users don't > use this flag, though. This signals that we make the API unnecessarily > too complex. > > This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to > be mapped to the vmalloc space. Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM > are simplified and drop the flag. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawil...@microsoft.com>
