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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io.rst b/Documentation/core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io.rst index e7c32a8de126..858b2fbcb36c 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io.rst @@ -55,14 +55,16 @@ scope. What about __vmalloc(GFP_NOFS) ============================== -vmalloc doesn't support GFP_NOFS semantic because there are hardcoded -GFP_KERNEL allocations deep inside the allocator which are quite non-trivial -to fix up. That means that calling ``vmalloc`` with GFP_NOFS/GFP_NOIO is -almost always a bug. The good news is that the NOFS/NOIO semantic can be -achieved by the scope API. +Since v5.17, and specifically after the commit 451769ebb7e79 ("mm/vmalloc: +alloc GFP_NO{FS,IO} for vmalloc"), GFP_NOFS/GFP_NOIO are now supported in +``[k]vmalloc`` by implicitly using scope API. + +In earlier kernels ``vmalloc`` didn't support GFP_NOFS semantic because there +were hardcoded GFP_KERNEL allocations deep inside the allocator. That means +that calling ``vmalloc`` with GFP_NOFS/GFP_NOIO was almost always a bug. In the ideal world, upper layers should already mark dangerous contexts -and so no special care is required and vmalloc should be called without -any problems. Sometimes if the context is not really clear or there are -layering violations then the recommended way around that is to wrap ``vmalloc`` -by the scope API with a comment explaining the problem. +and so no special care is required and ``vmalloc`` should be called without any +problems. Sometimes if the context is not really clear or there are layering +violations then the recommended way around that (on pre-v5.17 kernels) is to +wrap ``vmalloc`` by the scope API with a comment explaining the problem. |