linux-kernel - [PATCH 13/17] s390: get rid of superfluous __GFP

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Date:	Mon, 30 May 2016 11:14:55 +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>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 13/17] s390: 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.

page_table_alloc then uses the flag for a single page allocation. This
means that this flag has never been actually useful here because it has
always been used only for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
 arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c b/arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c
index e8b5962ac12a..e2565d2d0c32 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ unsigned long *page_table_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
 			return table;
 	}
 	/* Allocate a fresh page */
-	page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT);
+	page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!page)
 		return NULL;
 	if (!pgtable_page_ctor(page)) {
-- 
2.8.1