In drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in line 1475 and 1493 gfp_flag is set to -1 what are these lines doing? regards, Ronit
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 21:21:35 -0700, Greg KH said:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 09:03:53AM +0530, Ronit Halder wrote:
In drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in line 1475 and 1493 gfp_flag is set to -1
No, that's not what the code does, please read it again.
My guess is it's making some other routine work a lot harder in order to cover all possibilities, no matter how unusual :)
Sorry, it is gfp_mask not gfp_flag. On Sep 14, 2015 9:51 AM, "Greg KH" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 09:03:53AM +0530, Ronit Halder wrote:
In drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in line 1475 and 1493 gfp_flag is set to -1
No, that's not what the code does, please read it again.
greg k-h
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