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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 26be6407abd7..ee250e2cde34 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -339,9 +339,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap); * Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back * to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory. * - * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_REPEAT - * is supported only for large (>32kB) allocations, and it should be used only if - * kmalloc is preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks. + * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. + * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is supported, and it should be used only if kmalloc is + * preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks. * * Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted with mm people. */ @@ -366,13 +366,7 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) if (size > PAGE_SIZE) { kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN; - /* - * We have to override __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_NORETRY for !costly - * requests because there is no other way to tell the allocator - * that we want to fail rather than retry endlessly. - */ - if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_REPEAT) || - (size <= PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)) + if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL)) kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY; } |