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-rw-r--r--include/linux/gfp.h6
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c5
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index c37653b6843f..b414be387180 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define __GFP_FS ((__force gfp_t)0x80u) /* Can call down to low-level FS? */
#define __GFP_COLD ((__force gfp_t)0x100u) /* Cache-cold page required */
#define __GFP_NOWARN ((__force gfp_t)0x200u) /* Suppress page allocation failure warning */
-#define __GFP_REPEAT ((__force gfp_t)0x400u) /* Retry the allocation. Might fail */
-#define __GFP_NOFAIL ((__force gfp_t)0x800u) /* Retry for ever. Cannot fail */
-#define __GFP_NORETRY ((__force gfp_t)0x1000u)/* Do not retry. Might fail */
+#define __GFP_REPEAT ((__force gfp_t)0x400u) /* See above */
+#define __GFP_NOFAIL ((__force gfp_t)0x800u) /* See above */
+#define __GFP_NORETRY ((__force gfp_t)0x1000u)/* See above */
#define __GFP_COMP ((__force gfp_t)0x4000u)/* Add compound page metadata */
#define __GFP_ZERO ((__force gfp_t)0x8000u)/* Return zeroed page on success */
#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)0x10000u) /* Don't use emergency reserves */
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 88eb59dd7ac6..6965be064a31 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1611,8 +1611,9 @@ nofail_alloc:
* Don't let big-order allocations loop unless the caller explicitly
* requests that. Wait for some write requests to complete then retry.
*
- * In this implementation, __GFP_REPEAT means __GFP_NOFAIL for order
- * <= 3, but that may not be true in other implementations.
+ * In this implementation, either order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER or
+ * __GFP_REPEAT mean __GFP_NOFAIL, but that may not be true in other
+ * implementations.
*/
do_retry = 0;
if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)) {