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gfp: include __GFP_NOWARN in GFP_NOWAIT

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GFP_NOWAIT callers are always prepared for their allocations to fail
because they fail so frequently.  Forcing the callers to remember to add
__GFP_NOWARN is just annoying and leads to an endless stream of patches
for the places where we forgot to add it.

We can now remove __GFP_NOWARN from all the callers which specify
GFP_NOWAIT, but I'd rather wait a cycle and send patches to each
maintainer instead of creating a big pile of merge conflicts.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231109211507.2262419-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 2023-11-09 21:15:07 +00:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 17b46e7beb
commit 16f5dfbc85
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include/linux/gfp_types.h
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@ -274,7 +274,8 @@ typedef unsigned int __bitwise gfp_t;
* accounted to kmemcg.
*
* %GFP_NOWAIT is for kernel allocations that should not stall for direct
* reclaim, start physical IO or use any filesystem callback.
* reclaim, start physical IO or use any filesystem callback. It is very
* likely to fail to allocate memory, even for very small allocations.
*
* %GFP_NOIO will use direct reclaim to discard clean pages or slab pages
* that do not require the starting of any physical IO.
@ -325,7 +326,7 @@ typedef unsigned int __bitwise gfp_t;
#define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
#define GFP_KERNEL (__GFP_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
#define GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ACCOUNT)
#define GFP_NOWAIT (__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
#define GFP_NOWAIT (__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM | __GFP_NOWARN)
#define GFP_NOIO (__GFP_RECLAIM)
#define GFP_NOFS (__GFP_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO)
#define GFP_USER (__GFP_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_HARDWALL)