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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2012-07-31 16:44:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-31 18:42:45 -0700
commitb37f1dd0f543d9714f96c2f9b9f74f7bdfdfdf31 (patch)
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parent5091b74a95d447e34530e713a8971450a45498b3 (diff)
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mm: introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to emergency reserves
__GFP_MEMALLOC will allow the allocation to disregard the watermarks, much like PF_MEMALLOC. It allows one to pass along the memalloc state in object related allocation flags as opposed to task related flags, such as sk->sk_allocation. This removes the need for ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC as callers using __GFP_MEMALLOC can get the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK flag which is now enough to identify allocations related to page reclaim. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> 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/page_alloc.c22
-rw-r--r--mm/slab.c2
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 38e5be65f24e..8f65abeb9ad6 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1513,7 +1513,6 @@ failed:
#define ALLOC_HARDER 0x10 /* try to alloc harder */
#define ALLOC_HIGH 0x20 /* __GFP_HIGH set */
#define ALLOC_CPUSET 0x40 /* check for correct cpuset */
-#define ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC 0x80 /* Caller has PF_MEMALLOC set */
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
@@ -2294,11 +2293,10 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
} else if (unlikely(rt_task(current)) && !in_interrupt())
alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
- if ((current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) ||
- unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))) {
- alloc_flags |= ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC;
-
- if (likely(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) && !in_interrupt())
+ if (likely(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC))) {
+ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_MEMALLOC)
+ alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS;
+ else if (likely(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) && !in_interrupt())
alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS;
}
@@ -2307,7 +2305,7 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
bool gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
- return !!(gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_mask) & ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC);
+ return !!(gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_mask) & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS);
}
static inline struct page *
@@ -2498,12 +2496,12 @@ nopage:
return page;
got_pg:
/*
- * page->pfmemalloc is set when the caller had PFMEMALLOC set or is
- * been OOM killed. The expectation is that the caller is taking
- * steps that will free more memory. The caller should avoid the
- * page being used for !PFMEMALLOC purposes.
+ * page->pfmemalloc is set when the caller had PFMEMALLOC set, is
+ * been OOM killed or specified __GFP_MEMALLOC. The expectation is
+ * that the caller is taking steps that will free more memory. The
+ * caller should avoid the page being used for !PFMEMALLOC purposes.
*/
- page->pfmemalloc = !!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC);
+ page->pfmemalloc = !!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS);
if (kmemcheck_enabled)
kmemcheck_pagealloc_alloc(page, order, gfp_mask);
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 55d84a22ad96..77be18dab73c 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1884,7 +1884,7 @@ static void *kmem_getpages(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags, int nodeid)
return NULL;
}
- /* Record if ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC was set when allocating the slab */
+ /* Record if ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was set when allocating the slab */
if (unlikely(page->pfmemalloc))
pfmemalloc_active = true;