Re: [PATCH 1/2] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend

From	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/2] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend
Date	2015-12-01 01:50 +0100
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On (11/30/15 16:10), Andrew Morton wrote:
> > From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> > 
> > Each zcomp backend uses own gfp flag but it's pointless
> > because the context they could be called is driven by upper
> > layer(ie, zcomp frontend). As well, zcomp frondend could
> > call them in different context. One context(ie, zram init part)
> > is it should be better to make sure successful allocation
> > other context(ie, further stream allocation part for accelarating
> > I/O speed) is just optional so let's pass gfp down from driver
> > (ie, zcomp frontend) like normal MM convention.
> > 
> > [sergey: add missing __vmalloc zero and highmem gfps]
> > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> > Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
> 
> I changed this to signed-off-by:you.  Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> section 11 explains why ;)

Thank you.

> (Hm, rule (c) is recursive.  Nice!)

	-ss
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[PATCH 0/2] zram: cleanup stream's ->private allocation code Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 05:30 +0100
  [PATCH 1/2] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 05:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-12-01 01:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 01:50 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] zram/zcomp: do not zero out zcomp private pages Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 05:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] zram/zcomp: do not zero out zcomp private pages Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-30 08:20 +0100

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