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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index c29e9d347bc6..f8041f9de31e 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -237,9 +237,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
* are expected to be movable via page reclaim or page migration. Typically,
* pages on the LRU would also be allocated with GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE.
*
- * GFP_TRANSHUGE is used for THP allocations. They are compound allocations
- * that will fail quickly if memory is not available and will not wake
- * kswapd on failure.
+ * GFP_TRANSHUGE and GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT are used for THP allocations. They are
+ * compound allocations that will generally fail quickly if memory is not
+ * available and will not wake kswapd/kcompactd on failure. The _LIGHT
+ * version does not attempt reclaim/compaction at all and is by default used
+ * in page fault path, while the non-light is used by khugepaged.
*/
#define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
#define GFP_KERNEL (__GFP_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
@@ -254,9 +256,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define GFP_DMA32 __GFP_DMA32
#define GFP_HIGHUSER (GFP_USER | __GFP_HIGHMEM)
#define GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE (GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_MOVABLE)
-#define GFP_TRANSHUGE ((GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \
- __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN) & \
- ~__GFP_RECLAIM)
+#define GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT ((GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \
+ __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN) & ~__GFP_RECLAIM)
+#define GFP_TRANSHUGE (GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT | __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM)
/* Convert GFP flags to their corresponding migrate type */
#define GFP_MOVABLE_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_MOVABLE)