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docs/core-api: memory-allocation: describe reclaim behaviour
authorMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 15:36:41 +0000 (18:36 +0300)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 20:09:09 +0000 (14:09 -0600)
commit8adf96df56c0180468f350ed3f92228b7f66c420
tree2bf3df715fa38178acee495bb68b8d4e56c3a028
parentc8bbd7ba428d469c91da38ca8b3f67f68c610359
docs/core-api: memory-allocation: describe reclaim behaviour

Changelog of commit 83edd9d17da6 ("mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by
__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic") has very nice description
of GFP flags that affect reclaim behaviour of the page allocator.

It would be pity to keep this description buried in the log so let's expose
it in the Documentation/ as well.

Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200719153641.231131-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst