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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2012-11-28 07:22:38 -0200 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2012-11-28 07:22:38 -0200 |
| commit | d033a308d81ec83908760a15a841c2bd0d5e0ea3 (patch) | |
| tree | 647abd67987fe4d7fee80105fc823edf3f53b4f6 /drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | |
| parent | c6c22955f80f2db9614b01fe5a3d1cfcd8b3d848 (diff) | |
| parent | e23739b4ade80a3a7f87198f008f6c44a7cbc9fd (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'linus/master' into staging/for_v3.8
* linus/master: (1428 commits)
futex: avoid wake_futex() for a PI futex_q
watchdog: using u64 in get_sample_period()
writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion
mm: vmscan: check for fatal signals iff the process was throttled
Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"
proc: check vma->vm_file before dereferencing
UAPI: strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation
include/linux/bug.h: fix sparse warning related to BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID
Linux 3.7-rc7
powerpc/eeh: Do not invalidate PE properly
ALSA: hda - Fix build without CONFIG_PM
of/address: sparc: Declare of_iomap as an extern function for sparc again
PM / QoS: fix wrong error-checking condition
bnx2x: remove redundant warning log
vxlan: fix command usage in its doc
8139cp: revert "set ring address before enabling receiver"
MPI: Fix compilation on MIPS with GCC 4.4 and newer
MIPS: Fix crash that occurs when function tracing is enabled
MIPS: Merge overlapping bootmem ranges
jbd: Fix lock ordering bug in journal_unmap_buffer()
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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c index 374c46dff7dd..ec794a72975d 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c +++ b/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; |