[RFC 0/7] netlink: Add allocation flag to netlink_unicast()

Masashi Honma masashi.honma at gmail.com
Sat Jul 9 03:52:16 UTC 2016


On 2016年07月09日 01:08, David Teigland wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 09:35:45AM +0900, Masashi Honma wrote:
>> At the fs/dlm/netlink.c#dlm_timeout_warn(),
>> prepare_data allocates buffer with GFP_NOFS
>> and send_data() sends the buffer.
>>
>> But send_data() uses GFP_KERNEL or GFP_ATOMIC inside it.
>> Should it be replaced by GFP_NOFS ?
> That's old code that's never been used so it doesn't really matter.
>
I see. Thank you.




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