mm: improve __GFP_NORETRY comment based on implementation
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tue, 8 Sep 2015 22:00:31 +0000 (15:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 8 Sep 2015 22:35:28 +0000 (15:35 -0700)
commit28c015d07507e164d93b33498b4e482ff81c0e9b
treeb413cac1d2dcff31395acf5c47403c1e27019237
parent998ef75ddb5709bbea0bf1506cd2717348a3c647
mm: improve __GFP_NORETRY comment based on implementation

Explicitly state that __GFP_NORETRY will attempt direct reclaim and
memory compaction before returning NULL and that the oom killer is not
called in the current implementation of the page allocator.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/has/have/]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/gfp.h