linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 4/4] mm/vmalloc: cleanup gfp flag use in new_vmap

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Message-ID: <20251030164330.44995-5-vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:43:30 -0700
From: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 4/4] mm/vmalloc: cleanup gfp flag use in new_vmap_block()

The only caller, vb_alloc(), passes GFP_KERNEL into new_vmap_block()
which is a subset of GFP_RECLAIM_MASK. Since there's no reason to use
this mask here, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@...il.com>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 8ad0451a7bd7..0259cf59e6a2 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2699,8 +2699,7 @@ static void *new_vmap_block(unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 
 	node = numa_node_id();
 
-	vb = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct vmap_block),
-			gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK, node);
+	vb = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct vmap_block), gfp_mask, node);
 	if (unlikely(!vb))
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
-- 
2.51.1