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>
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 1e49be4..cbd7400 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#define ___GFP_REPEAT 0x400u
#define ___GFP_NOFAIL 0x800u
#define ___GFP_NORETRY 0x1000u
+#define ___GFP_MEMALLOC 0x2000u
#define ___GFP_COMP 0x4000u
#define ___GFP_ZERO 0x8000u
#define ___GFP_NOMEMALLOC 0x10000u
@@ -76,9 +77,14 @@
#define __GFP_REPEAT ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_REPEAT) /* See above */
#define __GFP_NOFAIL ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOFAIL) /* See above */
#define __GFP_NORETRY ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NORETRY) /* See above */
+#define __GFP_MEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_MEMALLOC)/* Allow access to emergency reserves */
#define __GFP_COMP ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_COMP) /* Add compound page metadata */
#define __GFP_ZERO ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_ZERO) /* Return zeroed page on success */
-#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOMEMALLOC) /* Don't use emergency reserves */
+#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOMEMALLOC) /* Don't use emergency reserves.
+ * This takes precedence over the
+ * __GFP_MEMALLOC flag if both are
+ * set
+ */
#define __GFP_HARDWALL ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_HARDWALL) /* Enforce hardwall cpuset memory allocs */
#define __GFP_THISNODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_THISNODE)/* No fallback, no policies */
#define __GFP_RECLAIMABLE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_RECLAIMABLE) /* Page is reclaimable */
@@ -129,7 +135,7 @@
/* Control page allocator reclaim behavior */
#define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
- __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
+ __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
/* Control slab gfp mask during early boot */
#define GFP_BOOT_MASK (__GFP_BITS_MASK & ~(__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS))
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 375e79e..bf78672 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
pgoff_t index; /* Our offset within mapping. */
void *freelist; /* slub/slob first free object */
bool pfmemalloc; /* If set by the page allocator,
- * ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC was set
+ * ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was set
* and the low watermark was not
* met implying that the system
* is under some pressure. The
diff --git a/include/trace/events/gfpflags.h b/include/trace/events/gfpflags.h
index 9fe3a36..d6fd8e5 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/gfpflags.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/gfpflags.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
{(unsigned long)__GFP_COMP, "GFP_COMP"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_ZERO, "GFP_ZERO"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_NOMEMALLOC, "GFP_NOMEMALLOC"}, \
+ {(unsigned long)__GFP_MEMALLOC, "GFP_MEMALLOC"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_HARDWALL, "GFP_HARDWALL"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_THISNODE, "GFP_THISNODE"}, \
{(unsigned long)__GFP_RECLAIMABLE, "GFP_RECLAIMABLE"}, \
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 38e5be6..8f65abe 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1513,7 +1513,6 @@
#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 @@
} 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 @@
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 @@
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 55d84a2..77be18d 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1884,7 +1884,7 @@
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;