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Revert "gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT"
authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:18:08 +0000 (15:18 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:00:49 +0000 (16:00 -0800)
commit22066c6babd91cfe8664fa231abbb31092669332
tree366edd361af32ead1f7be2de21e3da5c435d8636
parentdae7b78a3de74d0c2e3f3b703cf5fb1d801fa1e5
Revert "gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT"

This reverts commit b6feb51ade26 ("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>
include/linux/gfp.h
include/linux/memcontrol.h
mm/kmemleak.c