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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-11-29 13:54:27 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-11-30 08:51:17 -0800 |
| commit | a50915394f1fc02c2861d3b7ce7014788aa5066e (patch) | |
| tree | 4b94679a29fb97db6b5163a4c1345d62dfa6a1e7 /drivers | |
| parent | 60cefed485a02bd99b6299dad70666fe49245da7 (diff) | |
revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""
It apepars that this patch was innocent, and we hope that "mm: avoid
waking kswapd for THP allocations when compaction is deferred or
contended" will fix the final kswapd-spinning cause.
Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c index ec794a72975..374c46dff7d 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c @@ -1077,8 +1077,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev); * until the request succeeds or until the allocation size falls below * the system page size. This attempts to make sure it does not adversely * impact system performance, so when allocating more than one page, we - * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying, swapping, writing back - * or performing I/O. + * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying. * * Note, this function also makes sure that the allocated buffer is aligned to * the MTD device's min. I/O unit, i.e. the "mtd->writesize" value. @@ -1092,8 +1091,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev); */ void *mtd_kmalloc_up_to(const struct mtd_info *mtd, size_t *size) { - gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | - __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD; + gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | __GFP_NORETRY; size_t min_alloc = max_t(size_t, mtd->writesize, PAGE_SIZE); void *kbuf; |