linux-kernel - [PATCH 07/17] mips: get rid of superfluous __GFP

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Date:	Mon, 30 May 2016 11:14:49 +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>,
	John Crispin <blogic@...nwrt.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 07/17] mips: 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.

pte_alloc_one{_kernel}, pmd_alloc_one allocate PTE_ORDER resp. PMD_ORDER
but both are not larger than 1. This means that this flag has never
been actually useful here because it has always been used only for
PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.

Cc: John Crispin <blogic@...nwrt.org>
Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
 arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h
index b336037e8768..93c079a1cfc8 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static inline pte_t *pte_alloc_one_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm,
 {
 	pte_t *pte;
 
-	pte = (pte_t *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_ZERO, PTE_ORDER);
+	pte = (pte_t *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO, PTE_ORDER);
 
 	return pte;
 }
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static inline struct page *pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm,
 {
 	struct page *pte;
 
-	pte = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT, PTE_ORDER);
+	pte = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, PTE_ORDER);
 	if (!pte)
 		return NULL;
 	clear_highpage(pte);
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address)
 {
 	pmd_t *pmd;
 
-	pmd = (pmd_t *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT, PMD_ORDER);
+	pmd = (pmd_t *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, PMD_ORDER);
 	if (pmd)
 		pmd_init((unsigned long)pmd, (unsigned long)invalid_pte_table);
 	return pmd;
-- 
2.8.1