On Monday 11 April 2016 04:38 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> > > __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 <vgu...@synopsys.com> > Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgu...@synopsys.com> Thx, -Vineet
