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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmalloc.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 75fa100f5424..c56720136c45 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -2983,8 +2983,16 @@ fail: * @caller: caller's return address * * Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level - * allocator with @gfp_mask flags. Map them into contiguous - * kernel virtual space, using a pagetable protection of @prot. + * allocator with @gfp_mask flags. Please note that the full set of gfp + * flags are not supported. GFP_KERNEL would be a preferred allocation mode + * but GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO are supported as well. Zone modifiers are not + * supported. From the reclaim modifiers__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is required (aka + * GFP_NOWAIT is not supported) and only __GFP_NOFAIL is supported (aka + * __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL are not supported). + * __GFP_NOWARN can be used to suppress error messages about failures. + * + * Map them into contiguous kernel virtual space, using a pagetable + * protection of @prot. * * Return: the address of the area or %NULL on failure */ |