The difference is that the kernel will then know that this memory will be reclaimable in the near future. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c index daa5409..27e2bf6 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c @@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer2(struct drm_device *dev, void *data, } exec2_list = kmalloc(sizeof(*exec2_list)*args->buffer_count, - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY); + GFP_TEMPORARY | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY); if (exec2_list == NULL) exec2_list = drm_malloc_ab(sizeof(*exec2_list), args->buffer_count); -- 1.7.10.4
