On Monday 11 April 2016 04:38 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> > > __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: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]> Thx, -Vineet
