linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] docs/core-api: memory-allocation: describe reclaim behaviour

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Message-ID: <20200723140939.34cf8116@lwn.net>
Date:   Thu, 23 Jul 2020 14:09:39 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] docs/core-api: memory-allocation: describe
 reclaim behaviour

On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 18:36:41 +0300
Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org> wrote:

> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> Changelog of commit dcda9b04713c ("mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by
> __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic") has very nice description
> of GFP flags that affect reclaim behaviour of the page allocator.
> 
> It would be pity to keep this description buried in the log so let's expose
> it in the Documentation/ as well.
> 
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)

Applied, thanks.

I'm not quite sure how this fell through the cracks before, sorry about
that.

jon