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    mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers · a7c3e901
    Michal Hocko authored
    Patch series "kvmalloc", v5.
    
    There are many open coded kmalloc with vmalloc fallback instances in the
    tree.  Most of them are not careful enough or simply do not care about
    the underlying semantic of the kmalloc/page allocator which means that
    a) some vmalloc fallbacks are basically unreachable because the kmalloc
    part will keep retrying until it succeeds b) the page allocator can
    invoke a really disruptive steps like the OOM killer to move forward
    which doesn't sound appropriate when we consider that the vmalloc
    fallback is available.
    
    As it can be seen implementing kvmalloc requires quite an intimate
    knowledge if the page allocator and the memory reclaim internals which
    strongly suggests that a helper should be implemented in the memory
    subsystem proper.
    
    Most callers, I could find, have been converted to use the helper
    instead.  This is patch 6.  There are some more relying on __GFP_REPEAT
    in the networking stack which I have converted as well and Eric Dumazet
    was not...
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