On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:11:10PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 08-03-17 09:23:40, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 04:48:40PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > __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.
> > >
> > > page_table_alloc then uses the flag for a single page allocation. This
> > > means that this flag has never been actually useful here because it has
> > > always been used only for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.
> > >
> > > An earlier attempt to remove the flag 10d58bf297e2 ("s390: get rid of
> > > superfluous __GFP_REPEAT") has missed this one but the situation is very
> > > same here.
> > >
> > > Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > FWIW:
> > Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks
>
> > If you want, this can be routed via the s390 tree, whatever you prefer.
>
> Yes, that would be great. I suspect the rest will take longer to get
> merged or land to a conclusion.
Ok, applied. Thanks! :)
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