In the interest of creating a reserve based allocator; we need to make the slab allocator (*sigh*, all three) fair with respect to GFP flags.
That is, we need to protect memory from being used by easier gfp flags than it was allocated with. If our reserve is placed below GFP_ATOMIC, we do not want a GFP_KERNEL allocation to walk away with it - a scenario that is perfectly possible with the current allocators. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/