Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "15 fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  scripts/gdb: make lx-dmesg command work (reliably)
  mm: consider memblock reservations for deferred memory initialization sizing
  mm/hugetlb: report -EHWPOISON not -EFAULT when FOLL_HWPOISON is specified
  mlock: fix mlock count can not decrease in race condition
  mm/migrate: fix refcount handling when !hugepage_migration_supported()
  dax: fix race between colliding PMD & PTE entries
  mm: avoid spurious 'bad pmd' warning messages
  mm/page_alloc.c: make sure OOM victim can try allocations with no watermarks once
  pcmcia: remove left-over %Z format
  slub/memcg: cure the brainless abuse of sysfs attributes
  initramfs: fix disabling of initramfs (and its compression)
  mm: clarify why we want kmalloc before falling backto vmallock
  frv: declare jiffies to be located in the .data section
  include/linux/gfp.h: fix ___GFP_NOLOCKDEP value
  ksm: prevent crash after write_protect_page fails

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 464df34..26be640 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -357,8 +357,11 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
 	WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & GFP_KERNEL) != GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	/*
-	 * Make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no OOM
-	 * killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback
+	 * We want to attempt a large physically contiguous block first because
+	 * it is less likely to fragment multiple larger blocks and therefore
+	 * contribute to a long term fragmentation less than vmalloc fallback.
+	 * However make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no
+	 * OOM killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback.
 	 */
 	if (size > PAGE_SIZE) {
 		kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN;