---

yaml
---
r: 336038
b: refs/heads/master
c: 82b212f
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 05f564849d49499ced97913a0914b5950577d07d
+refs/heads/master: 82b212f40059bffd6808c07266a942d444d5558a

trunk/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c

@@ -1077,7 +1077,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev);
  * until the request succeeds or until the allocation size falls below
  * the system page size. This attempts to make sure it does not adversely
  * impact system performance, so when allocating more than one page, we
- * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying.
+ * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying, swapping, writing back
+ * or performing I/O.
  *
  * Note, this function also makes sure that the allocated buffer is aligned to
  * the MTD device's min. I/O unit, i.e. the "mtd->writesize" value.
@@ -1091,7 +1092,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev);
  */
 void *mtd_kmalloc_up_to(const struct mtd_info *mtd, size_t *size)
 {
-	gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | __GFP_NORETRY;
+	gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT |
+		       __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD;
 	size_t min_alloc = max_t(size_t, mtd->writesize, PAGE_SIZE);
 	void *kbuf;
 

trunk/include/linux/gfp.h

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 #define ___GFP_THISNODE		0x40000u
 #define ___GFP_RECLAIMABLE	0x80000u
 #define ___GFP_NOTRACK		0x200000u
+#define ___GFP_NO_KSWAPD	0x400000u
 #define ___GFP_OTHER_NODE	0x800000u
 #define ___GFP_WRITE		0x1000000u
 
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 #define __GFP_RECLAIMABLE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_RECLAIMABLE) /* Page is reclaimable */
 #define __GFP_NOTRACK	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOTRACK)  /* Don't track with kmemcheck */
 
+#define __GFP_NO_KSWAPD	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NO_KSWAPD)
 #define __GFP_OTHER_NODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_OTHER_NODE) /* On behalf of other node */
 #define __GFP_WRITE	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_WRITE)	/* Allocator intends to dirty page */
 
@@ -114,7 +116,8 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 				 __GFP_MOVABLE)
 #define GFP_IOFS	(__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
 #define GFP_TRANSHUGE	(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \
-			 __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN)
+			 __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \
+			 __GFP_NO_KSWAPD)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 #define GFP_THISNODE	(__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY)

trunk/include/trace/events/gfpflags.h

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 	{(unsigned long)__GFP_RECLAIMABLE,	"GFP_RECLAIMABLE"},	\
 	{(unsigned long)__GFP_MOVABLE,		"GFP_MOVABLE"},		\
 	{(unsigned long)__GFP_NOTRACK,		"GFP_NOTRACK"},		\
+	{(unsigned long)__GFP_NO_KSWAPD,	"GFP_NO_KSWAPD"},	\
 	{(unsigned long)__GFP_OTHER_NODE,	"GFP_OTHER_NODE"}	\
 	) : "GFP_NOWAIT"
 

trunk/mm/page_alloc.c

@@ -2416,8 +2416,9 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 		goto nopage;
 
 restart:
-	wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx,
-					zone_idx(preferred_zone));
+	if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD))
+		wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx,
+						zone_idx(preferred_zone));
 
 	/*
 	 * OK, we're below the kswapd watermark and have kicked background
@@ -2494,7 +2495,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	 * system then fail the allocation instead of entering direct reclaim.
 	 */
 	if ((deferred_compaction || contended_compaction) &&
-	    (gfp_mask & (__GFP_MOVABLE|__GFP_REPEAT)) == __GFP_MOVABLE)
+						(gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD))
 		goto nopage;
 
 	/* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */