linux-kernel - [PATCH 15/17] tile: get rid of superfluous __GFP

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Date:	Mon, 30 May 2016 11:14:57 +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 15/17] tile: 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.

pgtable_alloc_one uses __GFP_REPEAT flag for L2_USER_PGTABLE_ORDER but
the order is either 0 or 3 if L2_KERNEL_PGTABLE_SHIFT for HPAGE_SHIFT.
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: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com> [for tile]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
 arch/tile/mm/pgtable.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/tile/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/tile/mm/pgtable.c
index 7bf2491a9c1f..c4d5bf841a7f 100644
--- a/arch/tile/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/tile/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
 struct page *pgtable_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
 			       int order)
 {
-	gfp_t flags = GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_ZERO;
+	gfp_t flags = GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO;
 	struct page *p;
 	int i;
 
-- 
2.8.1