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| author | Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> | 2016-01-14 15:18:08 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -0800 |
| commit | 20b5c30398639b458371c228abfda829854b61c5 (patch) | |
| tree | 366edd361af32ead1f7be2de21e3da5c435d8636 /include/linux/memcontrol.h | |
| parent | b2a209ffa605994cbe3c259c8584ba1576d3310c (diff) | |
Revert "gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT"
This reverts commit 8f4fc071b192 ("gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT").
Black-list kmem accounting policy (aka __GFP_NOACCOUNT) turned out to be
fragile and difficult to maintain, because there seem to be many more
allocations that should not be accounted than those that should be.
Besides, false accounting an allocation might result in much worse
consequences than not accounting at all, namely increased memory
consumption due to pinned dead kmem caches.
So it was decided to switch to the white-list policy. This patch
reverts bits introducing the black-list policy. The white-list policy
will be introduced later in the series.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/memcontrol.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/memcontrol.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h index cd0e2413c358..2103f36b3bd3 100644 --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -773,8 +773,6 @@ static inline bool __memcg_kmem_bypass(gfp_t gfp) { if (!memcg_kmem_enabled()) return true; - if (gfp & __GFP_NOACCOUNT) - return true; if (in_interrupt() || (!current->mm) || (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) return true; return false; |