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

[Mikulas Patocka]

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