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Nishanth Aravamudan ab857d0938 mm: fix misleading __GFP_REPEAT related comments 
The definition and use of __GFP_REPEAT, __GFP_NOFAIL and __GFP_NORETRY in the
core VM have somewhat differing comments as to their actual semantics.
Annoyingly, the flags definition has inline and header comments, which might
be interpreted as not being equivalent.  Just add references to the header
comments in the inline ones so they don't go out of sync in the future.  In
their use in __alloc_pages() clarify that the current implementation treats
low-order allocations and __GFP_REPEAT allocations as distinct cases.

To clarify, the flags' semantics are:

__GFP_NORETRY means try no harder than one run through __alloc_pages

__GFP_REPEAT means __GFP_NOFAIL

__GFP_NOFAIL means repeat forever

order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER means __GFP_NOFAIL

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:05:58 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c cpumask: Cleanup more uses of CPU_MASK and NODE_MASK 2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
backing-dev.c mm/backing-dev.c: fix percpu_counter_destroy call bug in bdi_init 2007-12-05 09:21:18 -08:00
bootmem.c memory hotplug: make alloc_bootmem_section() 2008-04-28 08:58:25 -07:00
bounce.c block: Initial support for data-less (or empty) barrier support 2007-10-16 11:03:56 +02:00
dmapool.c dmapool: enable debugging for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON too 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fadvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap_xip.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap.c mm: rotate_reclaimable_page() cleanup 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fremap.c mm: fix various kernel-doc comments 2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
highmem.c mm: highmem kernel-doc additions 2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings 2008-04-28 17:29:18 -07:00
internal.h memory hotplug: free memmaps allocated by bootmem 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
Kconfig PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED and separate page flags for Head and Tail 2008-04-28 08:58:22 -07:00
maccess.c kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* 2008-04-17 20:05:39 +02:00
madvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
Makefile uaccess: add probe_kernel_write() 2008-04-17 20:05:36 +02:00
memcontrol.c memcg: fix node_state handling 2008-04-08 18:25:53 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c must #include "internal.h" 2008-04-28 13:44:29 -07:00
memory.c mm: add vm_insert_mixed 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
mempolicy.c mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in shmem_sb_info 2008-04-28 08:58:25 -07:00
mempool.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
migrate.c memcg: fix VM_BUG_ON from page migration 2008-03-04 16:35:14 -08:00
mincore.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
mlock.c do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
mmap.c mempolicy: rename mpol_copy to mpol_dup 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
mprotect.c fix mprotect vma_wants_writenotify prot 2007-10-23 08:32:06 -07:00
mremap.c sparse pointer use of zero as null 2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
msync.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
nommu.c mm/nommu.c: return 0 from kobjsize with invalid objects 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom_kill: remove unused parameter in badness() 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: fix misleading __GFP_REPEAT related comments 2008-04-29 08:05:58 -07:00
page_io.c mm: fix PageUptodate data race 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
page_isolation.c memory hotremove: unset migrate type "ISOLATE" after removal 2007-11-14 18:45:38 -08:00
page-writeback.c writeback: speed up writeback of big dirty files 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
pagewalk.c mm: fix possible off-by-one in walk_pte_range() 2008-04-28 08:58:16 -07:00
pdflush.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial 2008-04-21 16:36:46 -07:00
prio_tree.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
quicklist.c quicklists: Only consider memory that can be used with GFP_KERNEL 2008-01-14 08:52:22 -08:00
readahead.c mm/readahead: fix kernel-doc notation 2008-03-19 18:53:37 -07:00
rmap.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in shmem_sb_info 2008-04-28 08:58:25 -07:00
slab.c mm: move cache_line_size() to <linux/cache.h> 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
slob.c slob: fix bug - when slob allocates "struct kmem_cache", it does not force alignment. 2008-04-27 18:25:51 +03:00
slub.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 2008-04-28 14:08:56 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c NULL noise: fs/*, mm/*, kernel/* 2008-03-30 14:18:41 -07:00
sparse.c memory hotplug: free memmaps allocated by bootmem 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: fix various kernel-doc comments 2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
swap.c mm: rotate_reclaimable_page() cleanup 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: try both endianess when checking for endianess 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
thrash.c Bug in mm/thrash.c function grab_swap_token() 2007-05-11 08:29:32 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-03-25 08:57:47 -07:00
truncate.c fix invalidate_inode_pages2_range() to not clear ret 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
util.c fix mm/util.c:krealloc() 2007-11-14 18:45:41 -08:00
vmalloc.c vmallocinfo: add caller information 2008-04-28 08:58:21 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: have zonelist contains structs with both a zone pointer and zone_idx 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
vmstat.c vmstats: add cond_resched() to refresh_cpu_vm_stats() 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00