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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 11:14 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Are there any more comments or objections to this patch? Is this a good
> start or kv[mz]alloc has to provide a way to cover GFP_NOFS users as
> well in the initial version.

Did Andrew Morton ever comment on this?
I believe he was the primary objector in the past.

Last I recollect was over a year ago:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/7/1050