From: Michal Hocko Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:20:59 +0000 (-0700) Subject: arm: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT X-Git-Tag: v4.9.8~1690^2~124 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=397b080bb70f30d6b9778b0e607b67efcf64aa6e;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi3.git arm: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT __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. PGALLOC_GFP uses __GFP_REPEAT but none of the allocation which uses this flag is for more than order-2. This means that this flag has never been actually useful here because it has always been used only for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-5-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h index 20febb3..b2902a5 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static inline void pud_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, pmd_t *pmd) extern pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm); extern void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd); -#define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO) +#define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO) static inline void clean_pte_table(pte_t *pte) { diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c b/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c index b8d4773..c1c1a5c 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ #define __pgd_alloc() kmalloc(PTRS_PER_PGD * sizeof(pgd_t), GFP_KERNEL) #define __pgd_free(pgd) kfree(pgd) #else -#define __pgd_alloc() (pgd_t *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT, 2) +#define __pgd_alloc() (pgd_t *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 2) #define __pgd_free(pgd) free_pages((unsigned long)pgd, 2) #endif