From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:28:17 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: KVM: MMU: Don't do GFP_NOWAIT allocations
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~1365^2~16
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e3e5882dca3ab409aa8c9c96f47610b576719f8;p=pandora-kernel.git

KVM: MMU: Don't do GFP_NOWAIT allocations

Before preempt notifiers, kvm needed to allocate memory with GFP_NOWAIT so
as not to have to enable preemption and take a heavyweight exit.  On oom, we'd
fall back to a GFP_KERNEL allocation.

With preemption notifiers, we can do a GFP_KERNEL allocation, and perform
the heavyweight exit only if the kernel decides to put us to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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