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mm: make it clear that gfp reclaim modifiers are valid only for sleepable allocations

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While it might be really clear to MM developers that gfp reclaim modifiers
are applicable only to sleepable allocations (those with
__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) it seems that actual users of the API are not always
sure.  Make it explicit that they are not applicable for GFP_NOWAIT or
GFP_ATOMIC allocations which are the most commonly used non-sleepable
allocation masks.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200403083543.11552-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Hocko 2020-04-06 20:04:06 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
*
* Reclaim modifiers
* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Please note that all the following flags are only applicable to sleepable
* allocations (e.g. %GFP_NOWAIT and %GFP_ATOMIC will ignore them).
*
* %__GFP_IO can start physical IO.
*