The patch titled Subject: mips: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mips-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mips-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mips-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Subject: mips: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT __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}, pmd_alloc_one allocate PTE_ORDER resp. PMD_ORDER but both are not larger than 1. This means that this flag has never been actually useful here because it has always been used only for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-8-git-send-email-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: John Crispin <blogic@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h~mips-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h~mips-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat +++ a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static inline pte_t *pte_alloc_one_kerne { pte_t *pte; - pte = (pte_t *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_ZERO, PTE_ORDER); + pte = (pte_t *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO, PTE_ORDER); return pte; } @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static inline struct page *pte_alloc_one { struct page *pte; - pte = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT, PTE_ORDER); + pte = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, PTE_ORDER); if (!pte) return NULL; clear_highpage(pte); @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc_one(struc { pmd_t *pmd; - pmd = (pmd_t *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT, PMD_ORDER); + pmd = (pmd_t *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, PMD_ORDER); if (pmd) pmd_init((unsigned long)pmd, (unsigned long)invalid_pte_table); return pmd; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are mm-oom_reaper-do-not-use-siglock-in-try_oom_reaper.patch tree-wide-get-rid-of-__gfp_repeat-for-order-0-allocations-part-i.patch x86-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch x86-efi-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch arm-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch arm64-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch arc-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch mips-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch nios2-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch parisc-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch score-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch powerpc-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch sparc-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch s390-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch sh-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch tile-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch unicore32-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch jbd2-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html