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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-14 19:57:24 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-14 19:57:24 +0300
commitd5660df4a555a98154da850fb61f118269d0a283 (patch)
treeb2c5f3a15c300499df930321c32fd7d288467d6b /include/linux/gfp.h
parentb5fc7a89e58bcc059a3d5e4db79c481fb437de59 (diff)
parentf1f4f3ab54e9a52c7610c998ff8255f019742e67 (diff)
downloadlinux-d5660df4a555a98154da850fb61f118269d0a283.tar.xz
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "181 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: kbuild, scripts, ntfs, ocfs2, vfs, mm (slab, slub, kmemleak, dax, debug, pagecache, fadvise, gup, swap, memremap, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mincore, hmm, dma, memory-failure, vmallo and migration)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (181 commits) mm/migrate: remove obsolete comment about device public mm/migrate: remove cpages-- in migrate_vma_finalize() mm, oom_adj: don't loop through tasks in __set_oom_adj when not necessary memblock: use separate iterators for memory and reserved regions memblock: implement for_each_reserved_mem_region() using __next_mem_region() memblock: remove unused memblock_mem_size() x86/setup: simplify reserve_crashkernel() x86/setup: simplify initrd relocation and reservation arch, drivers: replace for_each_membock() with for_each_mem_range() arch, mm: replace for_each_memblock() with for_each_mem_pfn_range() memblock: reduce number of parameters in for_each_mem_range() memblock: make memblock_debug and related functionality private memblock: make for_each_memblock_type() iterator private mircoblaze: drop unneeded NUMA and sparsemem initializations riscv: drop unneeded node initialization h8300, nds32, openrisc: simplify detection of memory extents arm64: numa: simplify dummy_numa_init() arm, xtensa: simplify initialization of high memory pages dma-contiguous: simplify cma_early_percent_memory() KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: simplify kvm_cma_reserve() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/gfp.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/gfp.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 67a0774e080b..07e481993ef5 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -238,7 +238,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
* %__GFP_FOO flags as necessary.
*
* %GFP_ATOMIC users can not sleep and need the allocation to succeed. A lower
- * watermark is applied to allow access to "atomic reserves"
+ * watermark is applied to allow access to "atomic reserves".
+ * The current implementation doesn't support NMI and few other strict
+ * non-preemptive contexts (e.g. raw_spin_lock). The same applies to %GFP_NOWAIT.
*
* %GFP_KERNEL is typical for kernel-internal allocations. The caller requires
* %ZONE_NORMAL or a lower zone for direct access but can direct reclaim.
@@ -560,8 +562,6 @@ extern struct page *alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
#define alloc_page(gfp_mask) alloc_pages(gfp_mask, 0)
#define alloc_page_vma(gfp_mask, vma, addr) \
alloc_pages_vma(gfp_mask, 0, vma, addr, numa_node_id(), false)
-#define alloc_page_vma_node(gfp_mask, vma, addr, node) \
- alloc_pages_vma(gfp_mask, 0, vma, addr, node, false)
extern unsigned long __get_free_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order);
extern unsigned long get_zeroed_page(gfp_t gfp_mask);