From d0164adc89f6bb374d304ffcc375c6d2652fe67d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 16:28:21 -0800 Subject: mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd __GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold spinlocks or are in interrupts. They are expected to be high priority and have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred to as the "atomic reserve". __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve". Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options were available. Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic reserves. This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic, cannot sleep and have no alternative. High priority users continue to use __GFP_HIGH. __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and are willing to enter direct reclaim. __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim. __GFP_WAIT is redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake kswapd for background reclaim. This patch then converts a number of sites o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag. o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress. o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to flag manipulations. o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons. In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH. The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL. They may now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. It's almost certainly harmless if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/fscache/cookie.c | 2 +- fs/fscache/page.c | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/fscache') diff --git a/fs/fscache/cookie.c b/fs/fscache/cookie.c index d403c69bee08..4304072161aa 100644 --- a/fs/fscache/cookie.c +++ b/fs/fscache/cookie.c @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ struct fscache_cookie *__fscache_acquire_cookie( /* radix tree insertion won't use the preallocation pool unless it's * told it may not wait */ - INIT_RADIX_TREE(&cookie->stores, GFP_NOFS & ~__GFP_WAIT); + INIT_RADIX_TREE(&cookie->stores, GFP_NOFS & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM); switch (cookie->def->type) { case FSCACHE_COOKIE_TYPE_INDEX: diff --git a/fs/fscache/page.c b/fs/fscache/page.c index 483bbc613bf0..79483b3d8c6f 100644 --- a/fs/fscache/page.c +++ b/fs/fscache/page.c @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ bool release_page_wait_timeout(struct fscache_cookie *cookie, struct page *page) /* * decide whether a page can be released, possibly by cancelling a store to it - * - we're allowed to sleep if __GFP_WAIT is flagged + * - we're allowed to sleep if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is flagged */ bool __fscache_maybe_release_page(struct fscache_cookie *cookie, struct page *page, @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ page_busy: * allocator as the work threads writing to the cache may all end up * sleeping on memory allocation, so we may need to impose a timeout * too. */ - if (!(gfp & __GFP_WAIT) || !(gfp & __GFP_FS)) { + if (!(gfp & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) || !(gfp & __GFP_FS)) { fscache_stat(&fscache_n_store_vmscan_busy); return false; } @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ page_busy: _debug("fscache writeout timeout page: %p{%lx}", page, page->index); - gfp &= ~__GFP_WAIT; + gfp &= ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM; goto try_again; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fscache_maybe_release_page); -- cgit v1.2.1