Re: [PATCH RESEND] docs/core-api: memory-allocation: describe reclaim behaviour

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Thu Jul 23 2020 - 16:09:42 EST


On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 18:36:41 +0300
Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Changelog of commit dcda9b04713c ("mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by
> __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic") has very nice description
> of GFP flags that affect reclaim behaviour of the page allocator.
>
> It would be pity to keep this description buried in the log so let's expose
> it in the Documentation/ as well.
>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)

Applied, thanks.

I'm not quite sure how this fell through the cracks before, sorry about
that.

jon