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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2017-07-24 16:51:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2017-07-24 16:51:18 -0700 |
| commit | 53a7ff8fb785839b87f950fd85433d9c662fac89 (patch) | |
| tree | 119840a23e5226d3f258e2309b4ef1d328535dd2 /mm/util.c | |
| parent | 4323418d62fefe48ee5019f2c744c918be06ec69 (diff) | |
| parent | 072a7852338af900c302490474939e089f4bd4c4 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'bind_unbind' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core into next
This brings in devm_device_add_group() and friends so that we can create
driver-specific device attributes as managed resources.
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; |