revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""

It apepars that this patch was innocent, and we hope that "mm: avoid
waking kswapd for THP allocations when compaction is deferred or
contended" will fix the final kswapd-spinning cause.

Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
index ec794a7..374c46d 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
@@ -1077,8 +1077,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev);
  * until the request succeeds or until the allocation size falls below
  * the system page size. This attempts to make sure it does not adversely
  * impact system performance, so when allocating more than one page, we
- * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying, swapping, writing back
- * or performing I/O.
+ * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying.
  *
  * Note, this function also makes sure that the allocated buffer is aligned to
  * the MTD device's min. I/O unit, i.e. the "mtd->writesize" value.
@@ -1092,8 +1091,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev);
  */
 void *mtd_kmalloc_up_to(const struct mtd_info *mtd, size_t *size)
 {
-	gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT |
-		       __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD;
+	gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | __GFP_NORETRY;
 	size_t min_alloc = max_t(size_t, mtd->writesize, PAGE_SIZE);
 	void *kbuf;