Commit 0abfa8ef authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Andrew Morton

gfp: gfp_types.h: fix typos & punctuation

Correct typos/spellos and punctutation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213043316.10128-1-rdunlap@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent e93b81a3
......@@ -162,25 +162,25 @@ typedef unsigned int __bitwise gfp_t;
* %__GFP_RECLAIM is shorthand to allow/forbid both direct and kswapd reclaim.
*
* The default allocator behavior depends on the request size. We have a concept
* of so called costly allocations (with order > %PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER).
* of so-called costly allocations (with order > %PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER).
* !costly allocations are too essential to fail so they are implicitly
* non-failing by default (with some exceptions like OOM victims might fail so
* the caller still has to check for failures) while costly requests try to be
* not disruptive and back off even without invoking the OOM killer.
* The following three modifiers might be used to override some of these
* implicit rules
* implicit rules.
*
* %__GFP_NORETRY: The VM implementation will try only very lightweight
* memory direct reclaim to get some memory under memory pressure (thus
* it can sleep). It will avoid disruptive actions like OOM killer. The
* caller must handle the failure which is quite likely to happen under
* heavy memory pressure. The flag is suitable when failure can easily be
* handled at small cost, such as reduced throughput
* handled at small cost, such as reduced throughput.
*
* %__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL: The VM implementation will retry memory reclaim
* procedures that have previously failed if there is some indication
* that progress has been made else where. It can wait for other
* tasks to attempt high level approaches to freeing memory such as
* that progress has been made elsewhere. It can wait for other
* tasks to attempt high-level approaches to freeing memory such as
* compaction (which removes fragmentation) and page-out.
* There is still a definite limit to the number of retries, but it is
* a larger limit than with %__GFP_NORETRY.
......@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ typedef unsigned int __bitwise gfp_t;
* is being zeroed (either via __GFP_ZERO or via init_on_alloc, provided that
* __GFP_SKIP_ZERO is not set). This flag is intended for optimization: setting
* memory tags at the same time as zeroing memory has minimal additional
* performace impact.
* performance impact.
*
* %__GFP_SKIP_KASAN makes KASAN skip unpoisoning on page allocation.
* Used for userspace and vmalloc pages; the latter are unpoisoned by
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