android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/include
Nishanth Aravamudan ab857d0938 mm: fix misleading __GFP_REPEAT related comments
The definition and use of __GFP_REPEAT, __GFP_NOFAIL and __GFP_NORETRY in the
core VM have somewhat differing comments as to their actual semantics.
Annoyingly, the flags definition has inline and header comments, which might
be interpreted as not being equivalent.  Just add references to the header
comments in the inline ones so they don't go out of sync in the future.  In
their use in __alloc_pages() clarify that the current implementation treats
low-order allocations and __GFP_REPEAT allocations as distinct cases.

To clarify, the flags' semantics are:

__GFP_NORETRY means try no harder than one run through __alloc_pages

__GFP_REPEAT means __GFP_NOFAIL

__GFP_NOFAIL means repeat forever

order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER means __GFP_NOFAIL

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:05:58 -07:00
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acpi
asm-alpha alpha: teach the compiler that BUG doesn't return 2008-04-28 08:58:27 -07:00
asm-arm mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-avr32 mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-blackfin
asm-cris cris: add constfy to pgd_offset() 2008-04-28 08:58:28 -07:00
asm-frv mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-generic gpiochip_reserve() 2008-04-28 08:58:34 -07:00
asm-h8300
asm-ia64 fix ia64 local_irq_save() et.al. 2008-04-28 10:03:31 -07:00
asm-m32r mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-m68k mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-m68knommu
asm-mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus 2008-04-28 10:51:43 -07:00
asm-mn10300 mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-parisc mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-powerpc hugetlbfs: common code update for s390 2008-04-28 08:58:25 -07:00
asm-ppc mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-s390 s390: implement pte special bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-sh hugetlbfs: common code update for s390 2008-04-28 08:58:25 -07:00
asm-sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2008-04-28 09:45:57 -07:00
asm-sparc64 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2008-04-28 09:45:57 -07:00
asm-um mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-v850
asm-x86 gxfb/lxfb: detect framebuffer size using an MSR if VSA2 isn't available 2008-04-28 08:58:40 -07:00
asm-xtensa mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
crypto
keys
linux mm: fix misleading __GFP_REPEAT related comments 2008-04-29 08:05:58 -07:00
math-emu
media
mtd
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-04-28 09:44:11 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma
rxrpc
scsi
sound
video fbdev: platforming hecubafb and n411 2008-04-28 08:58:41 -07:00
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