[PATCH 06/20] arc: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Apr 28 2016 - 09:32:23 EST


From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

__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 uses __get_order_pte but this is obviously
always zero because BITS_FOR_PTE is not larger than 9 yet the page
size is always larger than 4K. This means that this flag has never
been actually useful here because it has always been used only for
PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.

Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arc/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
index 86ed671286df..3749234b7419 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ 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 = (pte_t *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
__get_order_pte());

return pte;
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address)
pgtable_t pte_pg;
struct page *page;

- pte_pg = (pgtable_t)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT, __get_order_pte());
+ pte_pg = (pgtable_t)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, __get_order_pte());
if (!pte_pg)
return 0;
memzero((void *)pte_pg, PTRS_PER_PTE * sizeof(pte_t));
--
2.8.0.rc3