Re: [PATCH 08/12] mm, page_alloc: Rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 08/24/2015 02:09 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> __GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and
> could not sleep.  Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic
> context and callers that are not willing to sleep. The latter should clear
> __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake. As clearing __GFP_WAIT
> behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the wrong
> flags. This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly indicate
> what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing them
> prevents it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

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