linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/5] Mark bio_alloc() allocations correctly

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 11:10:42 +0100 (IST)
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Mark bio_alloc() allocations correctly


bio_alloc() currently uses __GFP_MOVABLE which is plain wrong. Objects are
allocated with that gfp mask via mempool. The slab that is ultimatly used
is not reclaimable or movable.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
---

 buffer.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.22-rc1-mm1-clean/fs/buffer.c linux-2.6.22-rc1-mm1-010_biomovable/fs/buffer.c
--- linux-2.6.22-rc1-mm1-clean/fs/buffer.c	2007-05-16 10:54:18.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc1-mm1-010_biomovable/fs/buffer.c	2007-05-16 22:55:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -2641,7 +2641,7 @@ int submit_bh(int rw, struct buffer_head
 	 * from here on down, it's all bio -- do the initial mapping,
 	 * submit_bio -> generic_make_request may further map this bio around
 	 */
-	bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO|__GFP_MOVABLE, 1);
+	bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, 1);
 
 	bio->bi_sector = bh->b_blocknr * (bh->b_size >> 9);
 	bio->bi_bdev = bh->b_bdev;
-
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