linux_dsm_epyc7002/include
Michal Hocko 647757197c mm: clarify __GFP_NOFAIL deprecation status
__GFP_NOFAIL is documented as a deprecated flag since commit
478352e789 ("mm: add comment about deprecation of __GFP_NOFAIL").

This has discouraged people from using it but in some cases an opencoded
endless loop around allocator has been used instead.  So the allocator
is not aware of the de facto __GFP_NOFAIL allocation because this
information was not communicated properly.

Let's make clear that if the allocation context really cannot afford
failure because there is no good failure policy then using __GFP_NOFAIL
is preferable to opencoding the loop outside of the allocator.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Vipul Pandya <vipul@chelsio.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14 16:49:04 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2015-02-19 11:28:36 -08:00
asm-generic mm: define default PGTABLE_LEVELS to two 2015-04-14 16:49:02 -07:00
clocksource
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-02-14 09:47:01 -08:00
drm drm/ttm: device address space != CPU address space 2015-03-05 09:04:39 +10:00
dt-bindings USB patches for 4.1-rc1 2015-04-13 17:07:21 -07:00
keys
kvm KVM/ARM changes for v4.1: 2015-04-07 18:09:20 +02:00
linux mm: clarify __GFP_NOFAIL deprecation status 2015-04-14 16:49:04 -07:00
math-emu
media [media] media: atmel-isi: increase the burst length to improve the performance 2015-03-02 13:27:11 -03:00
memory
misc
net ipv6: protect skb->sk accesses from recursive dereference inside the stack 2015-04-06 16:12:49 -04:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma
rxrpc
scsi libata-eh: Set 'information' field for autosense 2015-03-27 11:59:22 -04:00
soc pm: at91: Workaround DDRSDRC self-refresh bug with LPDDR1 memories. 2015-03-03 19:43:59 +01:00
sound
target target: do not reject FUA CDBs when write cache is enabled but emulate_write_cache is 0 2015-03-19 23:26:46 -07:00
trace x86: expose number of page table levels on Kconfig level 2015-04-14 16:49:02 -07:00
uapi Staging driver patches for 4.1-rc1 2015-04-13 17:37:33 -07:00
video OMAPDSS: fix regression with display sysfs files 2015-02-26 10:23:15 +02:00
xen xen: Remove trailing semicolon from xenbus_register_frontend() definition 2015-03-02 10:38:59 +00:00
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