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Linus Torvalds caf491916b Revert "revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""" and associated damage 
This reverts commits a50915394f and
d7c3b937bd.

This is a revert of a revert of a revert.  In addition, it reverts the
even older i915 change to stop using the __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag due to the
original commits in linux-next.

It turns out that the original patch really was bogus, and that the
original revert was the correct thing to do after all.  We thought we
had fixed the problem, and then reverted the revert, but the problem
really is fundamental: waking up kswapd simply isn't the right thing to
do, and direct reclaim sometimes simply _is_ the right thing to do.

When certain allocations fail, we simply should try some direct reclaim,
and if that fails, fail the allocation.  That's the right thing to do
for THP allocations, which can easily fail, and the GPU allocations want
to do that too.

So starting kswapd is sometimes simply wrong, and removing the flag that
said "don't start kswapd" was a mistake.  Let's hope we never revisit
this mistake again - and certainly not this many times ;)

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-10 11:03:05 -08:00
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backing-dev.c backing-dev: use kstrto* in preference to simple_strtoul 2012-08-25 16:58:14 +08:00
bootmem.c revert "mm: fix-up zone present pages" 2012-11-16 14:33:04 -08:00
bounce.c
cleancache.c
compaction.c mm: compaction: validate pfn range passed to isolate_freepages_block 2012-12-06 11:17:33 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget 2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c mm: move all mmu notifier invocations to be done outside the PT lock 2012-10-09 16:22:58 +09:00
filemap.c readahead: fault retry breaks mmap file read random detection 2012-10-09 16:22:47 +09:00
fremap.c remap_file_pages: correctly handle the case of a NULL vm_ops pointer 2012-10-19 13:37:57 -07:00
frontswap.c frontswap: support exclusive gets if tmem backend is capable 2012-09-21 10:38:12 -04:00
highmem.c mm: highmem: don't treat PKMAP_ADDR(LAST_PKMAP) as a highmem address 2012-11-16 14:33:04 -08:00
huge_memory.c mm: huge_memory: Fix build error. 2012-10-15 07:59:15 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hugetlb.c mm: document PageHuge somewhat 2012-10-09 16:23:03 +09:00
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h mm, thp: fix mlock statistics 2012-10-09 16:23:03 +09:00
interval_tree.c mm: add CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_RB build option 2012-10-09 16:22:42 +09:00
Kconfig mm: enable CONFIG_COMPACTION by default 2012-10-09 16:22:53 +09:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c kmemleak: use rbtree instead of prio tree 2012-10-09 16:22:39 +09:00
ksm.c mm: wrap calls to set_pte_at_notify with invalidate_range_start and invalidate_range_end 2012-10-09 16:22:58 +09:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm: prepare VM_DONTDUMP for using in drivers 2012-10-09 16:22:18 +09:00
Makefile mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree 2012-10-09 16:22:39 +09:00
memblock.c x86, mm: Trim memory in memblock to be page aligned 2012-10-24 11:52:21 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: fix hotplugged memory zone oops 2012-11-16 14:33:04 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c revert "mm: fix-up zone present pages" 2012-11-16 14:33:04 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm: soft offline: split thp at the beginning of soft_offline_page() 2012-11-30 08:51:18 -08:00
memory.c mm: fix build warning for uninitialized value 2012-11-16 14:33:03 -08:00
mempolicy.c tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak 2012-12-06 11:56:43 -08:00
mempool.c
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c mm, thp: fix mlock statistics 2012-10-09 16:23:03 +09:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm: add anon_vma_lock to validate_mm() 2012-11-16 14:33:03 -08:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c mm/mmu_notifier: allocate mmu_notifier in advance 2012-10-25 14:37:53 -07:00
mmzone.c memcg: fix hotplugged memory zone oops 2012-11-16 14:33:04 -08:00
mprotect.c
mremap.c mm: move all mmu notifier invocations to be done outside the PT lock 2012-10-09 16:22:58 +09:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c revert "mm: fix-up zone present pages" 2012-11-16 14:33:04 -08:00
nommu.c mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree 2012-10-09 16:22:39 +09:00
oom_kill.c oom: remove deprecated oom_adj 2012-10-09 16:22:24 +09:00
page_alloc.c Revert "revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""" and associated damage 2012-12-10 11:03:05 -08:00
page_cgroup.c
page_io.c
page_isolation.c mm/page_alloc: refactor out __alloc_contig_migrate_alloc() 2012-10-09 16:22:52 +09:00
page-writeback.c CPU hotplug, writeback: Don't call writeback_set_ratelimit() too often during hotplug 2012-09-28 20:27:49 +08:00
pagewalk.c
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c sections: fix section conflicts in mm/percpu.c 2012-10-06 03:04:44 +09:00
pgtable-generic.c thp: introduce pmdp_invalidate() 2012-10-09 16:22:29 +09:00
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget 2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
rmap.c mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390 2012-10-25 14:37:52 -07:00
shmem.c tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak 2012-12-06 11:56:43 -08:00
slab_common.c mm, slab: release slab_mutex earlier in kmem_cache_destroy() 2012-10-10 09:25:08 +03:00
slab.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2012-10-07 07:53:13 +09:00
slab.h Revert "mm/sl[aou]b: Move sysfs_slab_add to common" 2012-09-05 12:07:44 +03:00
slob.c Merge branch 'testing/driver-warnings' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc into fixes 2012-10-19 15:40:18 -07:00
slub.c Merge branch 'slab/common-for-cgroups' into slab/for-linus 2012-10-03 09:56:37 +03:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c mm/vmemmap: fix wrong use of virt_to_page 2012-11-30 08:51:17 -08:00
swap_state.c
swap.c mm: remove vma arg from page_evictable 2012-10-09 16:22:55 +09:00
swapfile.c swapfile: fix name leak in swapoff 2012-11-16 14:33:04 -08:00
truncate.c mm: use clear_page_mlock() in page_remove_rmap() 2012-10-09 16:22:56 +09:00
util.c mm: Use __do_krealloc to do the krealloc job 2012-09-04 10:22:58 +03:00
vmalloc.c mm: use %pK for /proc/vmallocinfo 2012-10-09 16:23:03 +09:00
vmscan.c mm: vmscan: fix inappropriate zone congestion clearing 2012-12-08 08:41:18 -08:00
vmstat.c mm: remove unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed 2012-10-09 16:22:59 +09:00