From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4547DC433E4 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2020 20:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FB6206F4 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2020 20:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726029AbgGWUJk (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:09:40 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:42346 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725894AbgGWUJk (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:09:40 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5CF682CD; Thu, 23 Jul 2020 20:09:40 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 14:09:39 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Mike Rapoport Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Rapoport , Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] docs/core-api: memory-allocation: describe reclaim behaviour Message-ID: <20200723140939.34cf8116@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20200719153641.231131-1-rppt@kernel.org> References: <20200719153641.231131-1-rppt@kernel.org> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 18:36:41 +0300 Mike Rapoport wrote: > From: Mike Rapoport > > Changelog of commit dcda9b04713c ("mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by > __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic") has very nice description > of GFP flags that affect reclaim behaviour of the page allocator. > > It would be pity to keep this description buried in the log so let's expose > it in the Documentation/ as well. > > Cc: Michal Hocko > Acked-by: Michal Hocko > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport > --- > Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) Applied, thanks. I'm not quite sure how this fell through the cracks before, sorry about that. jon