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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2017-07-12 14:36:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-12 16:26:03 -0700
commitdcda9b04713c3f6ff0875652924844fae28286ea (patch)
tree0aa6dd3854b67e881e8be74283f0ae6ff96245ac /mm
parent473738eb78c3e379d682fb8a3cf7e1d17beded9f (diff)
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mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic
__GFP_REPEAT was designed to allow retry-but-eventually-fail semantic to the page allocator. This has been true but only for allocations requests larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. It has been always ignored for smaller sizes. This is a bit unfortunate because there is no way to express the same semantic for those requests and they are considered too important to fail so they might end up looping in the page allocator for ever, similarly to GFP_NOFAIL requests. Now that the whole tree has been cleaned up and accidental or misled usage of __GFP_REPEAT flag has been removed for !costly requests we can give the original flag a better name and more importantly a more useful semantic. Let's rename it to __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL which tells the user that the allocator would try really hard but there is no promise of a success. This will work independent of the order and overrides the default allocator behavior. Page allocator users have several levels of guarantee vs. cost options (take GFP_KERNEL as an example) - GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_RECLAIM - optimistic allocation without _any_ attempt to free memory at all. The most light weight mode which even doesn't kick the background reclaim. Should be used carefully because it might deplete the memory and the next user might hit the more aggressive reclaim - GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (or GFP_NOWAIT)- optimistic allocation without any attempt to free memory from the current context but can wake kswapd to reclaim memory if the zone is below the low watermark. Can be used from either atomic contexts or when the request is a performance optimization and there is another fallback for a slow path. - (GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_HIGH) & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (aka GFP_ATOMIC) - non sleeping allocation with an expensive fallback so it can access some portion of memory reserves. Usually used from interrupt/bh context with an expensive slow path fallback. - GFP_KERNEL - both background and direct reclaim are allowed and the _default_ page allocator behavior is used. That means that !costly allocation requests are basically nofail but there is no guarantee of that behavior so failures have to be checked properly by callers (e.g. OOM killer victim is allowed to fail currently). - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY - overrides the default allocator behavior and all allocation requests fail early rather than cause disruptive reclaim (one round of reclaim in this implementation). The OOM killer is not invoked. - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL - overrides the default allocator behavior and all allocation requests try really hard. The request will fail if the reclaim cannot make any progress. The OOM killer won't be triggered. - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL - overrides the default allocator behavior and all allocation requests will loop endlessly until they succeed. This might be really dangerous especially for larger orders. Existing users of __GFP_REPEAT are changed to __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL because they already had their semantic. No new users are added. __alloc_pages_slowpath is changed to bail out for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL if there is no progress and we have already passed the OOM point. This means that all the reclaim opportunities have been exhausted except the most disruptive one (the OOM killer) and a user defined fallback behavior is more sensible than keep retrying in the page allocator. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c] [mhocko@suse.com: semantic fix] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626123847.GM11534@dhcp22.suse.cz [mhocko@kernel.org: address other thing spotted by Vlastimil] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626124233.GN11534@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623085345.11304-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Alex Belits <alex.belits@cavium.com> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c4
-rw-r--r--mm/internal.h2
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c14
-rw-r--r--mm/sparse-vmemmap.c4
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c6
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c8
7 files changed, 24 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 1e516520433d..bc48ee783dd9 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ static struct page *alloc_fresh_huge_page_node(struct hstate *h, int nid)
page = __alloc_pages_node(nid,
htlb_alloc_mask(h)|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_THISNODE|
- __GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOWARN,
+ __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOWARN,
huge_page_order(h));
if (page) {
prep_new_huge_page(h, page, nid);
@@ -1525,7 +1525,7 @@ static struct page *__hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page(struct hstate *h,
{
int order = huge_page_order(h);
- gfp_mask |= __GFP_COMP|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOWARN;
+ gfp_mask |= __GFP_COMP|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOWARN;
if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
nid = numa_mem_id();
return __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_mask, order, nid, nmask);
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 0e4f558412fb..24d88f084705 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
* hints such as HIGHMEM usage.
*/
#define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
- __GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
+ __GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|\
__GFP_ATOMIC)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 64b7d82a9b1a..6d30e914afb6 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3284,6 +3284,14 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
/* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs */
if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
goto out;
+ /*
+ * We have already exhausted all our reclaim opportunities without any
+ * success so it is time to admit defeat. We will skip the OOM killer
+ * because it is very likely that the caller has a more reasonable
+ * fallback than shooting a random task.
+ */
+ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL)
+ goto out;
/* The OOM killer does not needlessly kill tasks for lowmem */
if (ac->high_zoneidx < ZONE_NORMAL)
goto out;
@@ -3413,7 +3421,7 @@ should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags,
}
/*
- * !costly requests are much more important than __GFP_REPEAT
+ * !costly requests are much more important than __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
* costly ones because they are de facto nofail and invoke OOM
* killer to move on while costly can fail and users are ready
* to cope with that. 1/4 retries is rather arbitrary but we
@@ -3920,9 +3928,9 @@ retry:
/*
* Do not retry costly high order allocations unless they are
- * __GFP_REPEAT
+ * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
*/
- if (costly_order && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT))
+ if (costly_order && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL))
goto nopage;
if (should_reclaim_retry(gfp_mask, order, ac, alloc_flags,
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index a56c3989f773..c50b1a14d55e 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
if (node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY))
page = alloc_pages_node(
- node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_REPEAT,
+ node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL,
get_order(size));
else
page = alloc_pages(
- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_REPEAT,
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL,
get_order(size));
if (page)
return page_address(page);
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 26be6407abd7..6520f2d4a226 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap);
* Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back
* to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory.
*
- * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_REPEAT
+ * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
* is supported only for large (>32kB) allocations, and it should be used only if
* kmalloc is preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks.
*
@@ -367,11 +367,11 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN;
/*
- * We have to override __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_NORETRY for !costly
+ * We have to override __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL by __GFP_NORETRY for !costly
* requests because there is no other way to tell the allocator
* that we want to fail rather than retry endlessly.
*/
- if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_REPEAT) ||
+ if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) ||
(size <= PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY;
}
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 6016ab079e2b..8698c1c86c4d 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ fail:
* allocator with @gfp_mask flags. Map them into contiguous
* kernel virtual space, using a pagetable protection of @prot.
*
- * Reclaim modifiers in @gfp_mask - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_REPEAT
+ * Reclaim modifiers in @gfp_mask - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
* and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported
*
* Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index e9210f825219..a1af041930a6 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2506,18 +2506,18 @@ static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
return false;
/* Consider stopping depending on scan and reclaim activity */
- if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT) {
+ if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) {
/*
- * For __GFP_REPEAT allocations, stop reclaiming if the
+ * For __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations, stop reclaiming if the
* full LRU list has been scanned and we are still failing
* to reclaim pages. This full LRU scan is potentially
- * expensive but a __GFP_REPEAT caller really wants to succeed
+ * expensive but a __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL caller really wants to succeed
*/
if (!nr_reclaimed && !nr_scanned)
return false;
} else {
/*
- * For non-__GFP_REPEAT allocations which can presumably
+ * For non-__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations which can presumably
* fail without consequence, stop if we failed to reclaim
* any pages from the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX number of
* pages that were scanned. This will return to the
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