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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/gfp.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/gfp.h | 16 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index 51bd1e72a917..97a9373e61e8 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ struct vm_area_struct; * _might_ fail. This depends upon the particular VM implementation. * * __GFP_NOFAIL: The VM implementation _must_ retry infinitely: the caller - * cannot handle allocation failures. This modifier is deprecated and no new - * users should be added. + * cannot handle allocation failures. New users should be evaluated carefully + * (and the flag should be used only when there is no reasonable failure policy) + * but it is definitely preferable to use the flag rather than opencode endless + * loop around allocator. * * __GFP_NORETRY: The VM implementation must not retry indefinitely. * @@ -117,16 +119,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct; __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \ __GFP_NO_KSWAPD) -/* - * GFP_THISNODE does not perform any reclaim, you most likely want to - * use __GFP_THISNODE to allocate from a given node without fallback! - */ -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA -#define GFP_THISNODE (__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY) -#else -#define GFP_THISNODE ((__force gfp_t)0) -#endif - /* This mask makes up all the page movable related flags */ #define GFP_MOVABLE_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_MOVABLE) |