linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/19] arm: get rid of superfluous __GFP

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Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:07:57 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:	<linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 04/19] arm: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

__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-2. This means that this flag has never
been actually useful here because it has always been used only for
PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.

Cc: Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 2 +-
 arch/arm/mm/pgd.c              | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h
index 20febb368844..b2902a5cd780 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static inline void pud_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, pmd_t *pmd)
 extern pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm);
 extern void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd);
 
-#define PGALLOC_GFP	(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO)
+#define PGALLOC_GFP	(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO)
 
 static inline void clean_pte_table(pte_t *pte)
 {
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c b/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c
index b8d477321730..c1c1a5c67da1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #define __pgd_alloc()	kmalloc(PTRS_PER_PGD * sizeof(pgd_t), GFP_KERNEL)
 #define __pgd_free(pgd)	kfree(pgd)
 #else
-#define __pgd_alloc()	(pgd_t *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT, 2)
+#define __pgd_alloc()	(pgd_t *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 2)
 #define __pgd_free(pgd)	free_pages((unsigned long)pgd, 2)
 #endif
 
-- 
2.8.0.rc3