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Commit 20b5c303 authored by Vladimir Davydov's avatar Vladimir Davydov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Revert "gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT"

This reverts commit 8f4fc071

 ("gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT").

Black-list kmem accounting policy (aka __GFP_NOACCOUNT) turned out to be
fragile and difficult to maintain, because there seem to be many more
allocations that should not be accounted than those that should be.
Besides, false accounting an allocation might result in much worse
consequences than not accounting at all, namely increased memory
consumption due to pinned dead kmem caches.

So it was decided to switch to the white-list policy.  This patch
reverts bits introducing the black-list policy.  The white-list policy
will be introduced later in the series.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b2a209ff
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