[PATCH v1 0/6] mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Tue Dec 3 19:29:48 AEDT 2024


On 02.12.24 23:07, Zi Yan wrote:
> On 2 Dec 2024, at 7:58, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> 
>> Let's clean up the gfp flags handling, and support __GFP_ZERO, such that we
>> can finally remove the TODO in memtrace code.
>>
>> I did some alloc_contig_*() testing with virtio-mem and hugetlb; I did not
>> test powernv/memtrace -- I cross-compiled it, though.
>>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador at suse.de>
>> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy at nvidia.com>
>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
>> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
>> Cc: Naveen N Rao <naveen at kernel.org>
>> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.ibm.com>
> 
> FYI, linux-mm does not get any of your emails: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ECFA727B-F542-42E5-BE32-F9FB27F5DCDB@nvidia.com/, but linux-kernel has them.

Indeed, linuxppc seems to have them as well.

Guess I'll have to blame it on linux-mm, then ;)

Let me resend with #5 patch description adjusted. Thanks for the review!

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb



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