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Commit 0531b2aa authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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mm: add new 'read_cache_page_gfp()' helper function



It's a simplified 'read_cache_page()' which takes a page allocation
flag, so that different paths can control how aggressive the memory
allocations are that populate a address space.

In particular, the intel GPU object mapping code wants to be able to do
a certain amount of own internal memory management by automatically
shrinking the address space when memory starts getting tight.  This
allows it to dynamically use different memory allocation policies on a
per-allocation basis, rather than depend on the (static) address space
gfp policy.

The actual new function is a one-liner, but re-organizing the helper
functions to the point where you can do this with a single line of code
is what most of the patch is all about.

Tested-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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