Slab allocators: remove useless __GFP_NO_GROW flag
There is no user remaining and I have never seen any use of that flag.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 2a7d15b..97a36c3 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
#define __GFP_REPEAT ((__force gfp_t)0x400u) /* Retry the allocation. Might fail */
#define __GFP_NOFAIL ((__force gfp_t)0x800u) /* Retry for ever. Cannot fail */
#define __GFP_NORETRY ((__force gfp_t)0x1000u)/* Do not retry. Might fail */
-#define __GFP_NO_GROW ((__force gfp_t)0x2000u)/* Slab internal usage */
#define __GFP_COMP ((__force gfp_t)0x4000u)/* Add compound page metadata */
#define __GFP_ZERO ((__force gfp_t)0x8000u)/* Return zeroed page on success */
#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)0x10000u) /* Don't use emergency reserves */
@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@
/* if you forget to add the bitmask here kernel will crash, period */
#define GFP_LEVEL_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS| \
__GFP_COLD|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT| \
- __GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_GROW|__GFP_COMP| \
+ __GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP| \
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_THISNODE)
/* This equals 0, but use constants in case they ever change */
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 52ecf75..5920a41 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2746,9 +2746,7 @@
* Be lazy and only check for valid flags here, keeping it out of the
* critical path in kmem_cache_alloc().
*/
- BUG_ON(flags & ~(GFP_DMA | GFP_LEVEL_MASK | __GFP_NO_GROW));
- if (flags & __GFP_NO_GROW)
- return 0;
+ BUG_ON(flags & ~(GFP_DMA | GFP_LEVEL_MASK));
ctor_flags = SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR;
local_flags = (flags & GFP_LEVEL_MASK);
@@ -3252,7 +3250,7 @@
flags | GFP_THISNODE, nid);
}
- if (!obj && !(flags & __GFP_NO_GROW)) {
+ if (!obj) {
/*
* This allocation will be performed within the constraints
* of the current cpuset / memory policy requirements.
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 347e448..a632348 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -815,9 +815,6 @@
void *last;
void *p;
- if (flags & __GFP_NO_GROW)
- return NULL;
-
BUG_ON(flags & ~(GFP_DMA | GFP_LEVEL_MASK));
if (flags & __GFP_WAIT)