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.
PGALLOC_GFP uses __GFP_REPEAT but none of the allocation which uses
this flag is for more than order-2. This means that this flag has never
been actually useful here because it has always been used only for
PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.
Cc: Russell King <li...@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 2 +-
arch/arm/mm/pgd.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h
index 20febb368844..b2902a5cd780 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static inline void pud_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t
*pud, pmd_t *pmd)
extern pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm);
extern void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd);
-#define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO)
+#define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO)
static inline void clean_pte_table(pte_t *pte)
{
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c b/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c
index b8d477321730..c1c1a5c67da1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
#define __pgd_alloc() kmalloc(PTRS_PER_PGD * sizeof(pgd_t), GFP_KERNEL)
#define __pgd_free(pgd) kfree(pgd)
#else
-#define __pgd_alloc() (pgd_t *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT, 2)
+#define __pgd_alloc() (pgd_t *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 2)
#define __pgd_free(pgd) free_pages((unsigned long)pgd, 2)
#endif
--
2.8.0.rc3
