[dm-devel] [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 24-04-18 11:30:40, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
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> 
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
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> > On Mon 23-04-18 20:25:15, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
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> > > 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.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs