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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2012-07-31 16:44:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-31 18:42:45 -0700
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mm: only set page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was used
__alloc_pages_slowpath() is called when the number of free pages is below the low watermark. If the caller is entitled to use ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS then the page will be marked page->pfmemalloc. This protects more pages than are strictly necessary as we only need to protect pages allocated below the min watermark (the pfmemalloc reserves). This patch only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required to allocate the page. [rientjes@google.com: David noticed the problem during review] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> 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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