From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] docs/core-api: memory-allocation: describe reclaim behaviour
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 14:09:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200723140939.34cf8116@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200719153641.231131-1-rppt@kernel.org>
On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 18:36:41 +0300
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
>
> Changelog of commit dcda9b04713c ("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>
> ---
> Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)
Applied, thanks.
I'm not quite sure how this fell through the cracks before, sorry about
that.
jon
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