linux/arch/parisc
Michal Hocko 19809c2da2 mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly
__vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying
allocation.  This API is quite popular

  $ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l
  77

The only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want
to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no
reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages
which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space.  About half of users don't
use this flag, though.  This signals that we make the API unnecessarily
too complex.

This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to
be mapped to the vmalloc space.  Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM
are simplified and drop the flag.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307141020.29107-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Cristopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
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configs arch: Rename CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and CONFIG_DEBUG_MODULE_RONX 2017-02-07 12:32:52 -08:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-05-02 16:40:27 -07:00
kernel mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'work.uaccess' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-01 14:41:04 -07:00
math-emu sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
mm parisc: Clean up fixup routines for get_user()/put_user() 2017-03-29 21:50:36 +02:00
oprofile
defpalo.conf
install.sh
Kconfig HAVE_ARCH_HARDENED_USERCOPY is unconditional now 2017-04-26 12:11:06 -04:00
Kconfig.debug arch: Move CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and CONFIG_SET_MODULE_RONX to be common 2017-02-07 12:32:52 -08:00
Makefile parisc: Fix ftrace function tracer 2016-04-14 17:47:19 +02:00
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