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mm: remove GFP_THISNODE

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NOTE: this is not about __GFP_THISNODE, this is only about GFP_THISNODE.

GFP_THISNODE is a secret combination of gfp bits that have different
behavior than expected.  It is a combination of __GFP_THISNODE,
__GFP_NORETRY, and __GFP_NOWARN and is special-cased in the page
allocator slowpath to fail without trying reclaim even though it may be
used in combination with __GFP_WAIT.

An example of the problem this creates: commit e97ca8e5b8 ("mm: fix
GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify") fixed up many users of GFP_THISNODE
that really just wanted __GFP_THISNODE.  The problem doesn't end there,
however, because even it was a no-op for alloc_misplaced_dst_page(),
which also sets __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN, and
migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(), where __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWAIT
is set in GFP_TRANSHUGE.  Converting GFP_THISNODE to __GFP_THISNODE is a
no-op in these cases since the page allocator special-cases
__GFP_THISNODE && __GFP_NORETRY && __GFP_NOWARN.

It's time to just remove GFP_THISNODE entirely.  We leave __GFP_THISNODE
to restrict an allocation to a local node, but remove GFP_THISNODE and
its obscurity.  Instead, we require that a caller clear __GFP_WAIT if it
wants to avoid reclaim.

This allows the aforementioned functions to actually reclaim as they
should.  It also enables any future callers that want to do
__GFP_THISNODE but also __GFP_NORETRY && __GFP_NOWARN to reclaim.  The
rule is simple: if you don't want to reclaim, then don't set __GFP_WAIT.

Aside: ovs_flow_stats_update() really wants to avoid reclaim as well, so
it is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Cc: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes 2015-04-14 15:46:55 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b360edb43f
commit 4167e9b2cf
4 changed files with 27 additions and 31 deletions
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10
include/linux/gfp.h
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@ -117,16 +117,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD)
/*
* GFP_THISNODE does not perform any reclaim, you most likely want to
* use __GFP_THISNODE to allocate from a given node without fallback!
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
#define GFP_THISNODE (__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY)
#else
#define GFP_THISNODE ((__force gfp_t)0)
#endif
/* This mask makes up all the page movable related flags */
#define GFP_MOVABLE_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_MOVABLE)

22
mm/page_alloc.c
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@ -2412,13 +2412,7 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
*did_some_progress = 1;
goto out;
}
/*
* GFP_THISNODE contains __GFP_NORETRY and we never hit this.
* Sanity check for bare calls of __GFP_THISNODE, not real OOM.
* The caller should handle page allocation failure by itself if
* it specifies __GFP_THISNODE.
* Note: Hugepage uses it but will hit PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.
*/
/* The OOM killer may not free memory on a specific node */
if (gfp_mask & __GFP_THISNODE)
goto out;
}
@ -2673,15 +2667,11 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
}
/*
* GFP_THISNODE (meaning __GFP_THISNODE, __GFP_NORETRY and
* __GFP_NOWARN set) should not cause reclaim since the subsystem
* (f.e. slab) using GFP_THISNODE may choose to trigger reclaim
* using a larger set of nodes after it has established that the
* allowed per node queues are empty and that nodes are
* over allocated.
* If this allocation cannot block and it is for a specific node, then
* fail early. There's no need to wakeup kswapd or retry for a
* speculative node-specific allocation.
*/
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) &&
(gfp_mask & GFP_THISNODE) == GFP_THISNODE)
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) && (gfp_mask & __GFP_THISNODE) && !wait)
goto nopage;
retry:
@ -2874,7 +2864,7 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
/*
* Check the zones suitable for the gfp_mask contain at least one
* valid zone. It's possible to have an empty zonelist as a result
* of GFP_THISNODE and a memoryless node
* of __GFP_THISNODE and a memoryless node
*/
if (unlikely(!zonelist->_zonerefs->zone))
return NULL;

22
mm/slab.c
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@ -857,6 +857,11 @@ static inline void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
return NULL;
}
static inline gfp_t gfp_exact_node(gfp_t flags)
{
return flags;
}
#else /* CONFIG_NUMA */
static void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t, int);
@ -1023,6 +1028,15 @@ static inline int cache_free_alien(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp)
return __cache_free_alien(cachep, objp, node, page_node);
}
/*
* Construct gfp mask to allocate from a specific node but do not invoke reclaim
* or warn about failures.
*/
static inline gfp_t gfp_exact_node(gfp_t flags)
{
return (flags | __GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN) & ~__GFP_WAIT;
}
#endif
/*
@ -2825,7 +2839,7 @@ alloc_done:
if (unlikely(!ac->avail)) {
int x;
force_grow:
x = cache_grow(cachep, flags | GFP_THISNODE, node, NULL);
x = cache_grow(cachep, gfp_exact_node(flags), node, NULL);
/* cache_grow can reenable interrupts, then ac could change. */
ac = cpu_cache_get(cachep);
@ -3019,7 +3033,7 @@ retry:
get_node(cache, nid) &&
get_node(cache, nid)->free_objects) {
obj = ____cache_alloc_node(cache,
flags | GFP_THISNODE, nid);
gfp_exact_node(flags), nid);
if (obj)
break;
}
@ -3047,7 +3061,7 @@ retry:
nid = page_to_nid(page);
if (cache_grow(cache, flags, nid, page)) {
obj = ____cache_alloc_node(cache,
flags | GFP_THISNODE, nid);
gfp_exact_node(flags), nid);
if (!obj)
/*
* Another processor may allocate the
@ -3118,7 +3132,7 @@ retry:
must_grow:
spin_unlock(&n->list_lock);
x = cache_grow(cachep, flags | GFP_THISNODE, nodeid, NULL);
x = cache_grow(cachep, gfp_exact_node(flags), nodeid, NULL);
if (x)
goto retry;

4
net/openvswitch/flow.c
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@ -100,7 +100,9 @@ void ovs_flow_stats_update(struct sw_flow *flow, __be16 tcp_flags,
new_stats =
kmem_cache_alloc_node(flow_stats_cache,
GFP_THISNODE |
GFP_NOWAIT |
__GFP_THISNODE |
__GFP_NOWARN |
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC,
node);
if (likely(new_stats)) {