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Message-Id: <1446740160-29094-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 17:15:57 +0100
From: mhocko@...nel.org
To: <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] __GFP_REPEAT cleanup
Hi,
while working on something unrelated I've checked the current usage
of __GFP_REPEAT in the tree. It seems that a good half of it is
and always has been bogus because __GFP_REPEAT has always been about
high order allocations while we are using it for order-0 or very small
orders very often. It seems that a big pile of them is just a copy&paste
when a code has been adopted from one arch to another.
I think it makes some sense to get rid of them because they are just
making the semantic more unclear.
The series is based on linux-next tree and
$ git grep __GFP_REPEAT next/master | wc -l
106
and with the patch
$ git grep __GFP_REPEAT | wc -l
44
There are probably more users which do not need the flag but I have focused
on the trivially superfluous ones here.
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