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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acpi	Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux	2012-10-08 07:14:06 +09:00
asm-generic	UAPI: Remove empty non-UAPI Kbuild files	2012-10-17 12:31:15 +01:00
clocksource
crypto	Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux	2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
drm	drm/radeon: add new SI pci id	2012-11-21 18:37:38 -05:00
keys	KEYS: Asymmetric key pluggable data parsers	2012-10-08 13:50:13 +10:30
linux	Revert "revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""" and associated damage	2012-12-10 11:03:05 -08:00
math-emu
media	[media] adv7604: Replace prim_mode by mode	2012-11-21 17:43:49 -02:00
memory
misc
net	tcp: bug fix Fast Open client retransmission	2012-12-07 14:39:28 -05:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma	infiniband: pass rdma_cm module to netlink_dump_start	2012-10-07 00:30:56 -04:00
rxrpc
scsi	[SCSI] sd: Implement support for WRITE SAME	2012-11-13 22:45:42 -08:00
sound	ALSA: Add a reference counter to card instance	2012-10-30 11:07:10 +01:00
target	target: Add target_submit_cmd_map_sgls for SGL fabric memory passthrough	2012-10-02 14:16:08 -07:00
trace	Revert "revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""" and associated damage	2012-12-10 11:03:05 -08:00
uapi	Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip	2012-12-01 13:07:48 -08:00
video	fbdev updates for 3.7	2012-10-12 10:21:02 +09:00
xen	Bug-fixes:	2012-11-10 06:56:21 +01:00
Kbuild	UAPI: Remove empty non-UAPI Kbuild files	2012-10-17 12:31:15 +01:00