Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: make it clear that gfp reclaim modifiers are valid only for sleepable allocations

[David Rientjes]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, Michal Hocko wrote:

> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> While it might be really clear to MM developers that gfp reclaim
> modifiers are applicable only to sleepable allocations (those with
> __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) it seems that actual users of the API are not
> always sure. Make it explicit that they are not applicable for
> GFP_NOWAIT or GFP_ATOMIC allocations which are the most commonly used
> non-sleepable allocation masks.
> 
> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>