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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2014-11-13 13:45:46 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-11-13 15:18:40 -0500
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rhashtable: Drop gfp_flags arg in insert/remove functions
Reallocation is only required for shrinking and expanding and both rely on a mutex for synchronization and callers of rhashtable_init() are in non atomic context. Therefore, no reason to continue passing allocation hints through the API. Instead, use GFP_KERNEL and add __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY to allow for silent fall back to vzalloc() without the OOM killer jumping in as pointed out by Eric Dumazet and Eric W. Biederman. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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