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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2022-01-14 14:07:14 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-01-15 16:30:29 +0200
commit4034247a0d6ab281ba3293798ce67af494d86129 (patch)
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mm: introduce memalloc_retry_wait()
Various places in the kernel - largely in filesystems - respond to a memory allocation failure by looping around and re-trying. Some of these cannot conveniently use __GFP_NOFAIL, for reasons such as: - a GFP_ATOMIC allocation, which __GFP_NOFAIL doesn't work on - a need to check for the process being signalled between failures - the possibility that other recovery actions could be performed - the allocation is quite deep in support code, and passing down an extra flag to say if __GFP_NOFAIL is wanted would be clumsy. Many of these currently use congestion_wait() which (in almost all cases) simply waits the given timeout - congestion isn't tracked for most devices. It isn't clear what the best delay is for loops, but it is clear that the various filesystems shouldn't be responsible for choosing a timeout. This patch introduces memalloc_retry_wait() with takes on that responsibility. Code that wants to retry a memory allocation can call this function passing the GFP flags that were used. It will wait however is appropriate. For now, it only considers __GFP_NORETRY and whatever gfpflags_allow_blocking() tests. If blocking is allowed without __GFP_NORETRY, then alloc_page either made some reclaim progress, or waited for a while, before failing. So there is no need for much further waiting. memalloc_retry_wait() will wait until the current jiffie ends. If this condition is not met, then alloc_page() won't have waited much if at all. In that case memalloc_retry_wait() waits about 200ms. This is the delay that most current loops uses. linux/sched/mm.h needs to be included in some files now, but linux/backing-dev.h does not. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163754371968.13692.1277530886009912421@noble.neil.brown.name Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
index 1e99ba1b9d72..9cb18b822ab2 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
@@ -688,7 +689,7 @@ static int svc_alloc_arg(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
return -EINTR;
}
trace_svc_alloc_arg_err(pages);
- schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(500));
+ memalloc_retry_wait(GFP_KERNEL);
}
rqstp->rq_page_end = &rqstp->rq_pages[pages];
rqstp->rq_pages[pages] = NULL; /* this might be seen in nfsd_splice_actor() */