Commit 29fd1897 authored by Michal Hocko's avatar Michal Hocko Committed by Linus Torvalds

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

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: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200403083543.11552-3-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d8cc323d
......@@ -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.
*
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