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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2014-03-10 15:49:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-03-10 17:26:19 -0700
commite97ca8e5b864f88b028c1759ba8536fa827d6d96 (patch)
tree37b58e8435cd1fc0f207ba51791da88b7488c749
parentfa389e220254c69ffae0d403eac4146171062d08 (diff)
mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify
GFP_THISNODE is for callers that implement their own clever fallback to remote nodes. It restricts the allocation to the specified node and does not invoke reclaim, assuming that the caller will take care of it when the fallback fails, e.g. through a subsequent allocation request without GFP_THISNODE set. However, many current GFP_THISNODE users only want the node exclusive aspect of the flag, without actually implementing their own fallback or triggering reclaim if necessary. This results in things like page migration failing prematurely even when there is easily reclaimable memory available, unless kswapd happens to be running already or a concurrent allocation attempt triggers the necessary reclaim. Convert all callsites that don't implement their own fallback strategy to __GFP_THISNODE. This restricts the allocation a single node too, but at the same time allows the allocator to enter the slowpath, wake kswapd, and invoke direct reclaim if necessary, to make the allocation happen when memory is full. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/ras.c3
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/gfp.h4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mmzone.h4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h2
-rw-r--r--kernel/profile.c4
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c11
8 files changed, 19 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c
index a96bcf83a735..20e8a9b21d75 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static int uncached_add_chunk(struct uncached_pool *uc_pool, int nid)
/* attempt to allocate a granule's worth of cached memory pages */
page = alloc_pages_exact_node(nid,
- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | GFP_THISNODE,
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_THISNODE,
IA64_GRANULE_SHIFT-PAGE_SHIFT);
if (!page) {
mutex_unlock(&uc_pool->add_chunk_mutex);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/ras.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/ras.c
index 5ec1e47a0d77..e865d748179b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/ras.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/ras.c
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ static int __init cbe_ptcal_enable_on_node(int nid, int order)
area->nid = nid;
area->order = order;
- area->pages = alloc_pages_exact_node(area->nid, GFP_KERNEL|GFP_THISNODE,
+ area->pages = alloc_pages_exact_node(area->nid,
+ GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_THISNODE,
area->order);
if (!area->pages) {
diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c
index b9e2000969f0..95c894482fdd 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ xpc_create_gru_mq_uv(unsigned int mq_size, int cpu, char *irq_name,
nid = cpu_to_node(cpu);
page = alloc_pages_exact_node(nid,
- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | GFP_THISNODE,
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_THISNODE,
pg_order);
if (page == NULL) {
dev_err(xpc_part, "xpc_create_gru_mq_uv() failed to alloc %d "
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 0437439bc047..39b81dc7d01a 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD)
+/*
+ * GFP_THISNODE does not perform any reclaim, you most likely want to
+ * use __GFP_THISNODE to allocate from a given node without fallback!
+ */
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
#define GFP_THISNODE (__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY)
#else
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 5f2052c83154..9b61b9bf81ac 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -590,10 +590,10 @@ static inline bool zone_is_empty(struct zone *zone)
/*
* The NUMA zonelists are doubled because we need zonelists that restrict the
- * allocations to a single node for GFP_THISNODE.
+ * allocations to a single node for __GFP_THISNODE.
*
* [0] : Zonelist with fallback
- * [1] : No fallback (GFP_THISNODE)
+ * [1] : No fallback (__GFP_THISNODE)
*/
#define MAX_ZONELISTS 2
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 9260abdd67df..b5b2df60299e 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_large(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
*
* %GFP_NOWAIT - Allocation will not sleep.
*
- * %GFP_THISNODE - Allocate node-local memory only.
+ * %__GFP_THISNODE - Allocate node-local memory only.
*
* %GFP_DMA - Allocation suitable for DMA.
* Should only be used for kmalloc() caches. Otherwise, use a
diff --git a/kernel/profile.c b/kernel/profile.c
index 6631e1ef55ab..ebdd9c1a86b4 100644
--- a/kernel/profile.c
+++ b/kernel/profile.c
@@ -549,14 +549,14 @@ static int create_hash_tables(void)
struct page *page;
page = alloc_pages_exact_node(node,
- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | GFP_THISNODE,
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_THISNODE,
0);
if (!page)
goto out_cleanup;
per_cpu(cpu_profile_hits, cpu)[1]
= (struct profile_hit *)page_address(page);
page = alloc_pages_exact_node(node,
- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | GFP_THISNODE,
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_THISNODE,
0);
if (!page)
goto out_cleanup;
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 482a33d89134..b494fdb9a636 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1158,7 +1158,7 @@ static struct page *new_page_node(struct page *p, unsigned long private,
pm->node);
else
return alloc_pages_exact_node(pm->node,
- GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | GFP_THISNODE, 0);
+ GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_THISNODE, 0);
}
/*
@@ -1544,9 +1544,9 @@ static struct page *alloc_misplaced_dst_page(struct page *page,
struct page *newpage;
newpage = alloc_pages_exact_node(nid,
- (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | GFP_THISNODE |
- __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY |
- __GFP_NOWARN) &
+ (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE |
+ __GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC |
+ __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN) &
~GFP_IOFS, 0);
return newpage;
@@ -1747,7 +1747,8 @@ int migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
goto out_dropref;
new_page = alloc_pages_node(node,
- (GFP_TRANSHUGE | GFP_THISNODE) & ~__GFP_WAIT, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
+ (GFP_TRANSHUGE | __GFP_THISNODE) & ~__GFP_WAIT,
+ HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
if (!new_page)
goto out_fail;