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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-11-27 02:33:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-11-27 02:33:33 (GMT) |
| commit | 2844a48706e54ddda4a04269dba4250b42f449de (patch) | |
| tree | deaf92b185ed33b86c5f6de225f0d16e39a94725 /drivers | |
| parent | 5687100aad982b7964f998886c282034b472653d (diff) | |
| parent | aa10990e028cac3d5e255711fb9fb47e00700e35 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2844a48706e54ddda4a04269dba4250b42f449de.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'akpm' (Fixes from Andrew)
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"8 fixes"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (8 patches)
futex: avoid wake_futex() for a PI futex_q
watchdog: using u64 in get_sample_period()
writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion
mm: vmscan: check for fatal signals iff the process was throttled
Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"
proc: check vma->vm_file before dereferencing
UAPI: strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation
include/linux/bug.h: fix sparse warning related to BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c index 374c46d..ec794a7 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c @@ -1077,7 +1077,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev); * until the request succeeds or until the allocation size falls below * the system page size. This attempts to make sure it does not adversely * impact system performance, so when allocating more than one page, we - * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying. + * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying, swapping, writing back + * or performing I/O. * * Note, this function also makes sure that the allocated buffer is aligned to * the MTD device's min. I/O unit, i.e. the "mtd->writesize" value. @@ -1091,7 +1092,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev); */ void *mtd_kmalloc_up_to(const struct mtd_info *mtd, size_t *size) { - gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | __GFP_NORETRY; + gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | + __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD; size_t min_alloc = max_t(size_t, mtd->writesize, PAGE_SIZE); void *kbuf; |