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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)
commit00bafa574673fd94ac2a5aa5354877d33f2488de
tree2bf3df715fa38178acee495bb68b8d4e56c3a028
parent2ed1761fab136ec3aefa3641a3048dd8ba09a067
docs/core-api: memory-allocation: describe reclaim behaviour

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>
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