lib/scatterlist: do not re-write gfp_flags in __sg_alloc_table()
We are seeing a lot of sg_alloc_table allocation failures using the new
drm prime infrastructure. We isolated the cause to code in
__sg_alloc_table that was re-writing the gfp_flags.
There is a comment in the code that suggest that there is an assumption
about the allocation coming from a memory pool. This was likely true
when sg lists were primarily used for disk I/O.
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Rob Clark <rob.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
index 6096e89..d09bdd8 100644
--- a/lib/scatterlist.c
+++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -279,14 +279,6 @@
if (!left)
sg_mark_end(&sg[sg_size - 1]);
- /*
- * only really needed for mempool backed sg allocations (like
- * SCSI), a possible improvement here would be to pass the
- * table pointer into the allocator and let that clear these
- * flags
- */
- gfp_mask &= ~__GFP_WAIT;
- gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGH;
prv = sg;
} while (left);