linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/17] x86/efi: get rid of superfluous __GFP

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Date:	Mon, 30 May 2016 11:14:45 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 03/17] x86/efi: 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.

efi_alloc_page_tables uses __GFP_REPEAT but it allocates an order-0
page. This means that this flag has never been actually useful here
because it has always been used only for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.

Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
index 6e7242be1c87..b226b3f497f1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ int __init efi_alloc_page_tables(void)
 	if (efi_enabled(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP))
 		return 0;
 
-	gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO;
+	gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO;
 	efi_pgd = (pgd_t *)__get_free_page(gfp_mask);
 	if (!efi_pgd)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.8.1