[PATCH 02/17] x86: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon May 30 2016 - 05:18:45 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.

PGALLOC_GFP uses __GFP_REPEAT but none of the allocation which uses this
flag is for more than order-0. This means that this flag has never
been actually useful here because it has always been used only for
PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
index 4d38416e2a7f..04f89caef9c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
# error "Need more than one PGD for the ESPFIX hack"
#endif

-#define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO)
+#define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO)

/* This contains the *bottom* address of the espfix stack */
DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(unsigned long, espfix_stack);
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 4eb287e25043..aa0ff4b02a96 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
#include <asm/fixmap.h>
#include <asm/mtrr.h>

-#define PGALLOC_GFP GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO
+#define PGALLOC_GFP GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO

#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHPTE
#define PGALLOC_USER_GFP __GFP_HIGHMEM
--
2.8.1