The patch titled
Mark bio_alloc() allocations correctly
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated-mark-bio_alloc-allocations-correctly.patch
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Subject: Mark bio_alloc() allocations correctly
From: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
bio_alloc() currently uses __GFP_MOVABLE which is plain wrong. Objects are
allocated with that gfp mask via mempool. The slab that is ultimatly used is
not reclaimable or movable.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/buffer.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/buffer.c~add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated-mark-bio_alloc-allocations-correctly fs/buffer.c
--- a/fs/buffer.c~add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated-mark-bio_alloc-allocations-correctly
+++ a/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2613,7 +2613,7 @@ int submit_bh(int rw, struct buffer_head
* from here on down, it's all bio -- do the initial mapping,
* submit_bio -> generic_make_request may further map this bio around
*/
- bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO|__GFP_MOVABLE, 1);
+ bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, 1);
bio->bi_sector = bh->b_blocknr * (bh->b_size >> 9);
bio->bi_bdev = bh->b_bdev;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mel@xxxxxxxxx are
x86_64-extract-helper-function-from-e820_register_active_regions.patch
add-a-bitmap-that-is-used-to-track-flags-affecting-a-block-of-pages.patch
add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated.patch
add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated-fix-alloc_zeroed_user_highpage-on-m68knommu.patch
add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated-mark-bio_alloc-allocations-correctly.patch
split-the-free-lists-for-movable-and-unmovable-allocations.patch
choose-pages-from-the-per-cpu-list-based-on-migration-type.patch
add-a-configure-option-to-group-pages-by-mobility.patch
drain-per-cpu-lists-when-high-order-allocations-fail.patch
move-free-pages-between-lists-on-steal.patch
move-free-pages-between-lists-on-steal-anti-fragmentation-switch-over-to-pfn_valid_within.patch
group-short-lived-and-reclaimable-kernel-allocations.patch
group-short-lived-and-reclaimable-kernel-allocations-use-slab_account_reclaim-to-determine-when-__gfp_reclaimable-should-be-used.patch
group-short-lived-and-reclaimable-kernel-allocations-use-slab_account_reclaim-to-determine-when-__gfp_reclaimable-should-be-used-fix.patch
group-high-order-atomic-allocations.patch
do-not-group-pages-by-mobility-type-on-low-memory-systems.patch
bias-the-placement-of-kernel-pages-at-lower-pfns.patch
be-more-agressive-about-stealing-when-migrate_reclaimable-allocations-fallback.patch
fix-corruption-of-memmap-on-ia64-sparsemem-when-mem_section-is-not-a-power-of-2.patch
bias-the-location-of-pages-freed-for-min_free_kbytes-in-the-same-max_order_nr_pages-blocks.patch
remove-page_group_by_mobility.patch
dont-group-high-order-atomic-allocations.patch
dont-group-high-order-atomic-allocations-remove-unused-parameter-to-allocflags_to_migratetype.patch
do-not-annotate-shmem-allocations-explicitly.patch
add-__gfp_temporary-to-identify-allocations-that-are-short-lived.patch
rename-gfp_high_movable-to-gfp_highuser_movable.patch
mark-page-cache-pages-as-__gfp_pagecache-instead-of-__gfp_movable.patch
remove-alloc_zeroed_user_highpage.patch
create-the-zone_movable-zone.patch
allow-huge-page-allocations-to-use-gfp_high_movable.patch
handle-kernelcore=-generic.patch
lumpy-reclaim-v4.patch
lumpy-move-to-using-pfn_valid_within.patch
have-kswapd-keep-a-minimum-order-free-other-than-order-0.patch
have-kswapd-keep-a-minimum-order-free-other-than-order-0-fix.patch
only-check-absolute-watermarks-for-alloc_high-and-alloc_harder-allocations.patch
ext2-reservations.patch
rename-gfp_high_movable-to-gfp_highuser_movable-prefetch.patch
add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated-swap-prefetch.patch
add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems.patch
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