Commit 7b04d717 authored by Jeff Dike's avatar Jeff Dike Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Add GFP_NOWAIT

Introduce GFP_NOWAIT, as an alias for GFP_ATOMIC & ~__GFP_HIGH.

This also changes XFS, which is the only in-tree user of this idiom that I
could find.  The XFS piece is compile-tested only.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent a5d2f46a
......@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ free_address(
{
a_list_t *aentry;
aentry = kmalloc(sizeof(a_list_t), GFP_ATOMIC & ~__GFP_HIGH);
aentry = kmalloc(sizeof(a_list_t), GFP_NOWAIT);
if (likely(aentry)) {
spin_lock(&as_lock);
aentry->next = as_free_head;
......
......@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
__GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_GROW|__GFP_COMP| \
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL)
/* This equals 0, but use constants in case they ever change */
#define GFP_NOWAIT (GFP_ATOMIC & ~__GFP_HIGH)
/* GFP_ATOMIC means both !wait (__GFP_WAIT not set) and use emergency pool */
#define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH)
#define GFP_NOIO (__GFP_WAIT)
......
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