[PATCH v3 4/4] mm/vmalloc: cleanup gfp flag use in new_vmap_block()

Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2025-11-17T17:37:37Z

The only caller, vb_alloc(), passes GFP_KERNEL into new_vmap_block()
which is a subset of GFP_RECLAIM_MASK. Since there's no reason to use
this mask here, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index d343db806170..d55a77977762 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2699,8 +2699,7 @@ static void *new_vmap_block(unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_mask)

node = numa_node_id();

- vb = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct vmap_block),
- gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK, node);
+ vb = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct vmap_block), gfp_mask, node);
if (unlikely(!vb))
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

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