Re: [PATCH 2/25] NTFS: Allow highmem kmalloc() in ntfs_malloc_nofs() and add _nofail() version.

    Anton> fs/ntfs/malloc.h::ntfs_malloc_nofs() to do the kmalloc()
    Anton> based allocations with __GFP_HIGHMEM, analogous to how the
    Anton> vmalloc() based allocations are done.

Does it make sense to pass __GFP_HIGHMEM to kmalloc()?  kmalloc() has
to return memory from lowmem, since it gives you an address from the
direct-mapped kernel area, so at best kmalloc() ignores this flag.

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