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The aim is to simplify and making the vm_area_alloc_pages() function less confusing as it became more clogged nowadays: - eliminate a "bulk_gfp" variable and do not overwrite a gfp flag for bulk allocator; - drop __GFP_NOFAIL flag for high-order-page requests on upper layer. It becomes less spread between levels when it comes to __GFP_NOFAIL allocations; - add a comment about a fallback path if high-order attempt is unsuccessful because for such cases __GFP_NOFAIL is dropped; - fix a typo in a commit message. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240827190916.34242-1-urezki@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sony.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.