lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2020]   [Jun]   [10]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
Date
SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 07/12] mm/hugetlb: do not modify user provided gfp_mask
2020년 6월 9일 (화) 오후 10:54, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>님이 작성:
>
> On Wed 27-05-20 15:44:58, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> >
> > It's not good practice to modify user input. Instead of using it to
> > build correct gfp_mask for APIs, this patch introduces another gfp_mask
> > field, __gfp_mask, for internal usage.
>
> Ugh, this is really ugly. It is just hugetlb to add __GFP_THISNODE as a
> special case. This is an ugly hack but I do not think we want to work
> around it by yet another hack. Moreover it seems that the __GFP_THISNODE
> might be not needed anymore as pointed out in a reply to earlier patch.

If you mean __GFP_THISNODE handling is ugly, as you pointed out,
__GFP_THISNODE handling would be removed in the next version.

If you mean introducing __gfp_mask is ugly, I will try to use a local variable
to keep modified gfp_mask rather than introducing a field in alloc_control.

Thanks.

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2020-06-10 07:14    [W:0.063 / U:0.044 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site