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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-06-05 09:27:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-06-05 09:27:05 +0200 |
| commit | 8bc39bca5e3e8da0d62f7f4d67fdbeecab02b350 (patch) | |
| tree | ac5df85133c64167381acb33086e154724148dc2 /mm/util.c | |
| parent | 094094a9373fbea80ec00714eed5c24f6fd39ecf (diff) | |
| parent | 3c2993b8c6143d8a5793746a54eba8f86f95240f (diff) | |
Merge 4.12-rc4 into tty-next
We want the tty locking fix in here, so that maybe we can finally get it
fixed for real...
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 464df3489903..26be6407abd7 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -357,8 +357,11 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & GFP_KERNEL) != GFP_KERNEL); /* - * Make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no OOM - * killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback + * We want to attempt a large physically contiguous block first because + * it is less likely to fragment multiple larger blocks and therefore + * contribute to a long term fragmentation less than vmalloc fallback. + * However make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no + * OOM killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback. */ if (size > PAGE_SIZE) { kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN; |