[PATCH 1/5] arm64: vdso: Use GFP_KERNEL for allocating compat vdso and signal pages

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Mar 24 17:28:02 GMT 2021


On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 06:03:44PM +0000, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> On 3/18/21 5:07 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > There's no need to allocate the compat vDSO and signal pages using
> > GFP_ATOMIC allocations, so use GFP_KERNEL instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> 
> Nit: We could explain why GFP_KERNEL is sufficient in the commit message.

Usually it's the other way around, document why GFP_ATOMIC is needed ;).

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Catalin



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