The patch titled
Subject: mmksm-add-__gfp_high-to-the-allocation-in-alloc_stable_node-v2-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mmksm-add-__gfp_high-to-the-allocation-in-alloc_stable_node-v2-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mmksm-add-__gfp_high-to-the-allocation-in-alloc_stable_node-v2-fix.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mmksm-add-__gfp_high-to-the-allocation-in-alloc_stable_node-v2-fix.patch
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mmksm-add-__gfp_high-to-the-allocation-in-alloc_stable_node-v2-fix
tweak comment
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zhongjiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/ksm.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/ksm.c~mmksm-add-__gfp_high-to-the-allocation-in-alloc_stable_node-v2-fix mm/ksm.c
--- a/mm/ksm.c~mmksm-add-__gfp_high-to-the-allocation-in-alloc_stable_node-v2-fix
+++ a/mm/ksm.c
@@ -300,11 +300,9 @@ static inline void free_rmap_item(struct
static inline struct stable_node *alloc_stable_node(void)
{
/*
- * The caller can take too long time with GFP_KERNEL when memory
- * is under pressure, it may be lead to the hung task. Therefore,
- * Adding the __GFP_HIGH to this. it grant access to some of
- * memory reserves. and it will make progress to make it allocation
- * successful at the utmost.
+ * The allocation can take too long with GFP_KERNEL when memory is under
+ * pressure, which may lead to hung task warnings. Adding __GFP_HIGH
+ * grants access to memory reserves, helping to avoid this problem.
*/
return kmem_cache_alloc(stable_node_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
}
_
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