linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] s390: get rid of superfluous __GFP

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Date:   Tue,  7 Mar 2017 16:48:40 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] 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.

An earlier attempt to remove the flag 10d58bf297e2 ("s390: get rid of
superfluous __GFP_REPEAT") has missed this one but the situation is very
same here.

Cc: 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 995f78532cc2..2776bad61094 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ struct page *page_table_alloc_pgste(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	struct page *page;
 	unsigned long *table;
 
-	page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT);
+	page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (page) {
 		table = (unsigned long *) page_to_phys(page);
 		clear_table(table, _PAGE_INVALID, PAGE_SIZE/2);
-- 
2.11.0