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mm: introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to emergency reserves

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__GFP_MEMALLOC will allow the allocation to disregard the watermarks, much
like PF_MEMALLOC.  It allows one to pass along the memalloc state in
object related allocation flags as opposed to task related flags, such as
sk->sk_allocation.  This removes the need for ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC as callers
using __GFP_MEMALLOC can get the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK flag which is now
enough to identify allocations related to page reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman
2012-07-31 16:44:03 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5091b74a95
commit b37f1dd0f5
5 changed files with 21 additions and 16 deletions
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include/trace/events/gfpflags.h
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@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
{(unsigned long)__GFP_COMP, "GFP_COMP"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_ZERO, "GFP_ZERO"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_NOMEMALLOC, "GFP_NOMEMALLOC"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_MEMALLOC, "GFP_MEMALLOC"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_HARDWALL, "GFP_HARDWALL"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_THISNODE, "GFP_THISNODE"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_RECLAIMABLE, "GFP_RECLAIMABLE"}, \