The patch titled do_try_to_free_pages gfp_mask redundant has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-have-zonelist-contains-structs-with-both-a-zone-pointer-and-zone_idx-just-return-do_try_to_free_pages-do_try_to_free_pages-gfp_mask-redundant.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 *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: do_try_to_free_pages gfp_mask redundant From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> do_try_to_free_pages is taking both a gfp_mask and an sc->gfp_mask, sometimes one used and sometimes the other; at present they're always identical, but such duplication begs for trouble: remove gfp_mask arg. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@xxxxxx> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-have-zonelist-contains-structs-with-both-a-zone-pointer-and-zone_idx-just-return-do_try_to_free_pages-do_try_to_free_pages-gfp_mask-redundant mm/vmscan.c --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-have-zonelist-contains-structs-with-both-a-zone-pointer-and-zone_idx-just-return-do_try_to_free_pages-do_try_to_free_pages-gfp_mask-redundant +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zones(int pr * allocation attempt will fail. */ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, - gfp_t gfp_mask, struct scan_control *sc) + struct scan_control *sc) { int priority; int ret = 0; @@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_page unsigned long lru_pages = 0; struct zoneref *z; struct zone *zone; - enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask); + enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask); if (scan_global_lru(sc)) count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL); @@ -1353,7 +1353,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_page * over limit cgroups */ if (scan_global_lru(sc)) { - shrink_slab(sc->nr_scanned, gfp_mask, lru_pages); + shrink_slab(sc->nr_scanned, sc->gfp_mask, lru_pages); if (reclaim_state) { nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab; reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0; @@ -1425,7 +1425,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct z .isolate_pages = isolate_pages_global, }; - return do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, gfp_mask, &sc); + return do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc); } #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR @@ -1447,7 +1447,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pag sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) | (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK); zonelist = NODE_DATA(numa_node_id())->node_zonelists; - return do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, sc.gfp_mask, &sc); + return do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc); } #endif _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx are git-unionfs.patch mmap_region-cleanup-the-final-vma_merge-related-code.patch mm-use-zonelists-instead-of-zones-when-direct-reclaiming-pages.patch mm-introduce-node_zonelist-for-accessing-the-zonelist-for-a-gfp-mask.patch mm-remember-what-the-preferred-zone-is-for-zone_statistics.patch mm-use-two-zonelist-that-are-filtered-by-gfp-mask.patch mm-have-zonelist-contains-structs-with-both-a-zone-pointer-and-zone_idx.patch mm-have-zonelist-contains-structs-with-both-a-zone-pointer-and-zone_idx-fix-memcg-ooms.patch mm-have-zonelist-contains-structs-with-both-a-zone-pointer-and-zone_idx-just-return-do_try_to_free_pages.patch mm-have-zonelist-contains-structs-with-both-a-zone-pointer-and-zone_idx-just-return-do_try_to_free_pages-do_try_to_free_pages-gfp_mask-redundant.patch mm-filter-based-on-a-nodemask-as-well-as-a-gfp_mask.patch mm-filter-based-on-a-nodemask-as-well-as-a-gfp_mask-doc-fixes.patch mm-filter-based-on-a-nodemask-as-well-as-a-gfp_mask-make-dequeue_huge_page_vma-obey-mpol_bind-nodemask.patch mm-filter-based-on-a-nodemask-as-well-as-a-gfp_mask-make-dequeue_huge_page_vma-obey-mpol_bind-nodemask-rework.patch mm-try-both-endianess-when-checking-for-endianess.patch mempolicy-support-optional-mode-flags-fix.patch cgroups-add-cgroup-support-for-enabling-controllers-at-boot-time.patch memory-controller-make-memory-resource-control-aware-of-boot-options.patch procfs-task-exe-symlink.patch procfs-task-exe-symlink-fix.patch procfs-task-exe-symlink-fix-2.patch prio_tree-debugging-patch.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