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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c index 374c46dff7d..ec794a72975 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c @@ -1077,7 +1077,8 @@ 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. + * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying, swapping, writing back + * or performing I/O. * * 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. @@ -1091,7 +1092,8 @@ 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_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | + __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD; size_t min_alloc = max_t(size_t, mtd->writesize, PAGE_SIZE); void *kbuf; |