[PATCH] lib/scatterlist: do not re-write gfp_flags in __sg_alloc_table

[Mandeep Singh Baines]

We are seeing a lot of sg_alloc_table allocation failures using the
new drm prime infrastructure. We isolated the cause to code in
__sg_alloc_table that was re-writing the gfp_flags.

There is a comment in the code that suggest that there is an
assumption about the allocation coming from a memory pool. This was
likely true when sg lists were primarily used for disk I/O.

Change-Id: I459169f56e4a9aa859661b22ec9d4e6925f99e85
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rob Clark <rob.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 lib/scatterlist.c |    8 --------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
index 6096e89..d09bdd8 100644
--- a/lib/scatterlist.c
+++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -279,14 +279,6 @@ int __sg_alloc_table(struct sg_table *table, unsigned int nents,
 		if (!left)
 			sg_mark_end(&sg[sg_size - 1]);
 
-		/*
-		 * only really needed for mempool backed sg allocations (like
-		 * SCSI), a possible improvement here would be to pass the
-		 * table pointer into the allocator and let that clear these
-		 * flags
-		 */
-		gfp_mask &= ~__GFP_WAIT;
-		gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGH;
 		prv = sg;
 	} while (left);
 
-- 
1.7.7.3

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