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diff --git a/mm-alloc_contig-re-allow-CMA-to-compact-FS-pages.patch b/mm-alloc_contig-re-allow-CMA-to-compact-FS-pages.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e542dc4f..000000000
--- a/mm-alloc_contig-re-allow-CMA-to-compact-FS-pages.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-From 424f6c4818bbf1b8ccf58aa012ecc19c0bb9b446 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:18:05 -0800
-Subject: [PATCH 179/273] mm: alloc_contig: re-allow CMA to compact FS pages
-
-Commit 73e64c51afc5 ("mm, compaction: allow compaction for GFP_NOFS
-requests") changed compation to skip FS pages if not explicitly allowed
-to touch them, but missed to update the CMA compact_control.
-
-This leads to a very high isolation failure rate, crippling performance
-of CMA even on a lightly loaded system. Re-allow CMA to compact FS
-pages by setting the correct GFP flags, restoring CMA behavior and
-performance to the kernel 4.9 level.
-
-Fixes: 73e64c51afc5 (mm, compaction: allow compaction for GFP_NOFS requests)
-Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170113115155.24335-1-l.stach@pengutronix.de
-Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
-Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
-Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
-Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
-Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
-Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
----
- mm/page_alloc.c | 1 +
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
-
-diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
-index d604d25..41d5e2e 100644
---- a/mm/page_alloc.c
-+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
-@@ -7248,6 +7248,7 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
- .zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(start)),
- .mode = MIGRATE_SYNC,
- .ignore_skip_hint = true,
-+ .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
- };
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.migratepages);
-
---
-2.9.3
-