[PATCH 02/19] x86: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

__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.

PGALLOC_GFP uses __GFP_REPEAT but none of the allocation which uses this
flag is for more than order-0. This means that this flag has never
been actually useful here because it has always been used only for
PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c | 2 +-
 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
index 4d38416e2a7f..04f89caef9c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 # error "Need more than one PGD for the ESPFIX hack"
 #endif
 
-#define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO)
+#define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO)
 
 /* This contains the *bottom* address of the espfix stack */
 DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(unsigned long, espfix_stack);
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 4eb287e25043..aa0ff4b02a96 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #include <asm/fixmap.h>
 #include <asm/mtrr.h>
 
-#define PGALLOC_GFP GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO
+#define PGALLOC_GFP GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHPTE
 #define PGALLOC_USER_GFP __GFP_HIGHMEM
-- 
2.8.0.rc3

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