Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend

From	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend
Date	2015-11-25 16:10 +0100
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Hello,

On (11/25/15 22:50), Minchan Kim wrote:
[..]
> > I think that applying 3/3 before 2/3 will be a simpler (and probably a better)
> > thing to do. We fitst extend zcomp interface and pass flags (without any
> > functional change) and then extend the flags and introduce vmalloc fallback.
> 
> The reason I ordered such way is that I wanted to discuss [2/3] as
> stable material after I get your ACK. It solves real problem in android platform
> which is real fact and I think it's enough small to send stable tree.
> What do you think?
> 
> > 
> > So we don't have to add comments to lz4/lzo backend that are getting (re-)moved
> > in the very next commit.
> 
> Fair enough if you don't agree sending [2/3] to stable.

Aha, I see. I don't mind to send it to -stable (with __GFP_HIGHMEM fix
up).

Do -stable guys take this type of patches?

	-ss
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[PATCH v2 1/3] zram/zcomp: use GFP_NOIO to allocate streams Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-25 07:00 +0100
  [PATCH v2 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-25 07:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 13:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-25 15:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 16:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-25 16:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 08:40 +0100
    [PATCH 1/2] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 14:00 +0100
      [PATCH 2/2] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 14:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 03:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 03:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 03:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 04:40 +0100
  [PATCH v2 2/3] zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-25 07:00 +0100

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