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authorPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>2006-01-11 15:17:19 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-11 21:42:09 -0500
commit4eac915d02453e81a32595cd7423492c81337a26 (patch)
tree2c652730cdf2cb0015cf59a8f75506c917685091 /include/linux
parent7365f3d169a1eae00e713c1a4eea90e86415dcc5 (diff)
[PATCH] mm: gfp_atomic comments
Clarify in comments that GFP_ATOMIC means both "don't sleep" and "use emergency pools", hence both ALLOC_HARDER and ALLOC_HIGH. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/gfp.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 8b2eab90abb6..da7ce8730e97 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
57 __GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_GROW|__GFP_COMP| \ 57 __GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_GROW|__GFP_COMP| \
58 __GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL) 58 __GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL)
59 59
60/* GFP_ATOMIC means both !wait (__GFP_WAIT not set) and use emergency pool */
60#define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH) 61#define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH)
61#define GFP_NOIO (__GFP_WAIT) 62#define GFP_NOIO (__GFP_WAIT)
62#define GFP_NOFS (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO) 63#define GFP_NOFS (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO)