From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932813AbcE3JPP (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2016 05:15:15 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f65.google.com ([74.125.82.65]:35402 "EHLO mail-wm0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754363AbcE3JPK (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2016 05:15:10 -0400 From: Michal Hocko To: Andrew Morton Cc: , LKML , Michal Hocko , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 03/17] x86/efi: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 11:14:45 +0200 Message-Id: <1464599699-30131-4-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.1 In-Reply-To: <1464599699-30131-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> References: <1464599699-30131-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Michal Hocko __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. efi_alloc_page_tables uses __GFP_REPEAT but it allocates an order-0 page. 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@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko --- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c index 6e7242be1c87..b226b3f497f1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ int __init efi_alloc_page_tables(void) if (efi_enabled(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP)) return 0; - gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO; + gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO; efi_pgd = (pgd_t *)__get_free_page(gfp_mask); if (!efi_pgd) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.8.1