Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - arch/sh updates

 - ocfs2 updates

 - kernel/watchdog feature

 - about half of mm/

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (122 commits)
  Documentation: update arch list in the 'memtest' entry
  Kconfig: memtest: update number of test patterns up to 17
  arm: add support for memtest
  arm64: add support for memtest
  memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses
  mm: move memtest under mm
  mm, hugetlb: abort __get_user_pages if current has been oom killed
  mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing
  memcg: print cgroup information when system panics due to panic_on_oom
  mm: numa: remove migrate_ratelimited
  mm: fold arch_randomize_brk into ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
  mm: split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR
  s390: redefine randomize_et_dyn for ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
  mm: expose arch_mmap_rnd when available
  s390: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  powerpc: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  mips: extract logic for mmap_rnd()
  arm64: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  x86: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  arm: factor out mmap ASLR into mmap_rnd
  ...

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 51bd1e72a917..97a9373e61e8 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
  * _might_ fail.  This depends upon the particular VM implementation.
  *
  * __GFP_NOFAIL: The VM implementation _must_ retry infinitely: the caller
- * cannot handle allocation failures.  This modifier is deprecated and no new
- * users should be added.
+ * cannot handle allocation failures. New users should be evaluated carefully
+ * (and the flag should be used only when there is no reasonable failure policy)
+ * but it is definitely preferable to use the flag rather than opencode endless
+ * loop around allocator.
  *
  * __GFP_NORETRY: The VM implementation must not retry indefinitely.
  *
@@ -117,16 +119,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 			 __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \
 			 __GFP_NO_KSWAPD)
 
-/*
- * GFP_THISNODE does not perform any reclaim, you most likely want to
- * use __GFP_THISNODE to allocate from a given node without fallback!
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-#define GFP_THISNODE	(__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY)
-#else
-#define GFP_THISNODE	((__force gfp_t)0)
-#endif
-
 /* This mask makes up all the page movable related flags */
 #define GFP_MOVABLE_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_MOVABLE)