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 {pgd,pmd}_alloc allocate from
{pgd,pmd}_cache but both caches are allocating up to PAGE_SIZE
objects. This means that this flag has never been actually useful here
because it has always been used only for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ys...@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dal...@libc.org>
Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
---
arch/sh/mm/pgtable.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/sh/mm/pgtable.c
index 26e03a1f7ca4..a62bd8696779 100644
--- a/arch/sh/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/sh/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
-#define PGALLOC_GFP GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO
+#define PGALLOC_GFP GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO
static struct kmem_cache *pgd_cachep;
#if PAGETABLE_LEVELS > 2
--
2.8.1
