[PATCH 15/17] tile: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon May 30 2016 - 05:16:49 EST


From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

__GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced
around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations.

pgtable_alloc_one uses __GFP_REPEAT flag for L2_USER_PGTABLE_ORDER but
the order is either 0 or 3 if L2_KERNEL_PGTABLE_SHIFT for HPAGE_SHIFT.
This means that this flag has never been actually useful here because it
has always been used only for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.

Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [for tile]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
---
arch/tile/mm/pgtable.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/tile/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/tile/mm/pgtable.c
index 7bf2491a9c1f..c4d5bf841a7f 100644
--- a/arch/tile/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/tile/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
struct page *pgtable_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
int order)
{
- gfp_t flags = GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_ZERO;
+ gfp_t flags = GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO;
struct page *p;
int i;

--
2.8.1