From: Michal Hocko Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 21:48:58 +0000 (-0700) Subject: arc: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT X-Git-Tag: v4.7-rc5~11^2~32 X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.eti.br/?p=cascardo%2Flinux.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=54d87d600adbe9889bccaff38420cec02250993b arc: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT __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. pte_alloc_one_kernel uses __get_order_pte but this is obviously always zero because BITS_FOR_PTE is not larger than 9 yet the page size is always larger than 4K. This means that this flag has never been actually useful here because it has always been used only for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-7-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vineet Gupta Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/pgalloc.h index 86ed671286df..3749234b7419 100644 --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/pgalloc.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/pgalloc.h @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static inline pte_t *pte_alloc_one_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm, { pte_t *pte; - pte = (pte_t *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO, + pte = (pte_t *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, __get_order_pte()); return pte; @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address) pgtable_t pte_pg; struct page *page; - pte_pg = (pgtable_t)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT, __get_order_pte()); + pte_pg = (pgtable_t)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, __get_order_pte()); if (!pte_pg) return 0; memzero((void *)pte_pg, PTRS_PER_PTE * sizeof(pte_t));