Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752646AbcD1NYS (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:24:18 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:36436 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751731AbcD1NYP (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:24:15 -0400 From: Michal Hocko To: Andrew Morton Cc: , LKML , Michal Hocko , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andy Lutomirski , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 02/20] x86: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:23:48 +0200 Message-Id: <1461849846-27209-3-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.0.rc3 In-Reply-To: <1461849846-27209-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> References: <1461849846-27209-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1725 Lines: 49 From: Michal Hocko __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations. PGALLOC_GFP uses __GFP_REPEAT but none of the allocation which uses this flag is for more than order-0. This means that this flag has never been actually useful here because it has always been used only for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko --- arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c index 4d38416e2a7f..04f89caef9c4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ # error "Need more than one PGD for the ESPFIX hack" #endif -#define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO) +#define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO) /* This contains the *bottom* address of the espfix stack */ DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(unsigned long, espfix_stack); diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c index 4eb287e25043..aa0ff4b02a96 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ #include #include -#define PGALLOC_GFP GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO +#define PGALLOC_GFP GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHPTE #define PGALLOC_USER_GFP __GFP_HIGHMEM -- 2.8.0.rc3