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-rw-r--r--include/linux/gfp.h14
-rw-r--r--include/trace/events/mmflags.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c29
-rw-r--r--mm/khugepaged.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c6
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c1
7 files changed, 30 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index c29e9d347bc6..f8041f9de31e 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -237,9 +237,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
* are expected to be movable via page reclaim or page migration. Typically,
* pages on the LRU would also be allocated with GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE.
*
- * GFP_TRANSHUGE is used for THP allocations. They are compound allocations
- * that will fail quickly if memory is not available and will not wake
- * kswapd on failure.
+ * GFP_TRANSHUGE and GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT are used for THP allocations. They are
+ * compound allocations that will generally fail quickly if memory is not
+ * available and will not wake kswapd/kcompactd on failure. The _LIGHT
+ * version does not attempt reclaim/compaction at all and is by default used
+ * in page fault path, while the non-light is used by khugepaged.
*/
#define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
#define GFP_KERNEL (__GFP_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
@@ -254,9 +256,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define GFP_DMA32 __GFP_DMA32
#define GFP_HIGHUSER (GFP_USER | __GFP_HIGHMEM)
#define GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE (GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_MOVABLE)
-#define GFP_TRANSHUGE ((GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \
- __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN) & \
- ~__GFP_RECLAIM)
+#define GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT ((GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \
+ __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN) & ~__GFP_RECLAIM)
+#define GFP_TRANSHUGE (GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT | __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM)
/* Convert GFP flags to their corresponding migrate type */
#define GFP_MOVABLE_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_MOVABLE)
diff --git a/include/trace/events/mmflags.h b/include/trace/events/mmflags.h
index 43cedbf0c759..5a81ab48a2fb 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/mmflags.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/mmflags.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#define __def_gfpflag_names \
{(unsigned long)GFP_TRANSHUGE, "GFP_TRANSHUGE"}, \
+ {(unsigned long)GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT, "GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT"}, \
{(unsigned long)GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, "GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE"},\
{(unsigned long)GFP_HIGHUSER, "GFP_HIGHUSER"}, \
{(unsigned long)GFP_USER, "GFP_USER"}, \
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 8f0cd35345dc..2373f0a7d340 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -539,23 +539,26 @@ static int __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct fault_env *fe, struct page *page,
}
/*
- * If THP is set to always then directly reclaim/compact as necessary
- * If set to defer then do no reclaim and defer to khugepaged
+ * If THP defrag is set to always then directly reclaim/compact as necessary
+ * If set to defer then do only background reclaim/compact and defer to khugepaged
* If set to madvise and the VMA is flagged then directly reclaim/compact
+ * When direct reclaim/compact is allowed, don't retry except for flagged VMA's
*/
static inline gfp_t alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
- gfp_t reclaim_flags = 0;
-
- if (test_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags) &&
- (vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGEPAGE))
- reclaim_flags = __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM;
- else if (test_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags))
- reclaim_flags = __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM;
- else if (test_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags))
- reclaim_flags = __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM;
-
- return GFP_TRANSHUGE | reclaim_flags;
+ bool vma_madvised = !!(vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGEPAGE);
+
+ if (test_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG,
+ &transparent_hugepage_flags) && vma_madvised)
+ return GFP_TRANSHUGE;
+ else if (test_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG,
+ &transparent_hugepage_flags))
+ return GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT | __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM;
+ else if (test_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG,
+ &transparent_hugepage_flags))
+ return GFP_TRANSHUGE | (vma_madvised ? 0 : __GFP_NORETRY);
+
+ return GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT;
}
/* Caller must hold page table lock. */
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index d1423d790f6d..79c52d0061af 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ static bool khugepaged_scan_abort(int nid)
/* Defrag for khugepaged will enter direct reclaim/compaction if necessary */
static inline gfp_t alloc_hugepage_khugepaged_gfpmask(void)
{
- return GFP_TRANSHUGE | (khugepaged_defrag() ? __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM : 0);
+ return khugepaged_defrag() ? GFP_TRANSHUGE : GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index ed0268268e93..f7ee04a5ae27 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1934,7 +1934,7 @@ int migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
goto out_dropref;
new_page = alloc_pages_node(node,
- (GFP_TRANSHUGE | __GFP_THISNODE) & ~__GFP_RECLAIM,
+ (GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT | __GFP_THISNODE),
HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
if (!new_page)
goto out_fail;
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c42ec374df96..09ba67487897 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3556,11 +3556,9 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
/*
* Looks like reclaim/compaction is worth trying, but
* sync compaction could be very expensive, so keep
- * using async compaction, unless it's khugepaged
- * trying to collapse.
+ * using async compaction.
*/
- if (!(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
- migration_mode = MIGRATE_ASYNC;
+ migration_mode = MIGRATE_ASYNC;
}
}
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
index b1d491c2e704..fdde1bd3e306 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c
@@ -608,6 +608,7 @@ static const struct {
const char *compact;
} gfp_compact_table[] = {
{ "GFP_TRANSHUGE", "THP" },
+ { "GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT", "THL" },
{ "GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE", "HUM" },
{ "GFP_HIGHUSER", "HU" },
{ "GFP_USER", "U" },