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mm: page_alloc: hide some GFP internals and document the bits and flag combinations
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Sat, 7 Nov 2015 00:28:43 +0000 (16:28 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 7 Nov 2015 01:50:42 +0000 (17:50 -0800)
commit3f2aaf9d1033c08bae9362d3c572b0f42ff1d7a1
tree7012f11f80b22d4df3372305062fcefb899d5c50
parent48bb0f36fe81b82f7f55ce1a21ac4201369d549d
mm: page_alloc: hide some GFP internals and document the bits and flag combinations

Andrew stated the following

We have quite a history of remote parts of the kernel using
weird/wrong/inexplicable combinations of __GFP_ flags. I tend
to think that this is because we didn't adequately explain the
interface.

And I don't think that gfp.h really improved much in this area as
a result of this patchset.  Could you go through it some time and
decide if we've adequately documented all this stuff?

This patches first moves some GFP flag combinations that are part of the MM
internals to mm/internal.h. The rest of the patch documents the __GFP_FOO
bits under various headings and then documents the flag combinations. It
will not help callers that are brain damaged but the clarity might motivate
some fixes and avoid future mistakes.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/gfp.h
mm/internal.h
mm/shmem.c
mm/vmalloc.c