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Currently the kernel force charges the allocations which have __GFP_HIGH
flag without triggering the memory reclaim. __GFP_HIGH indicates that
the caller is high priority and since commit 869712fd3de5 ("mm:
memcontrol: fix network errors from failing __GFP_ATOMIC charges") the
kernel lets such allocations do force charging. Please note that
__GFP_ATOMIC has been replaced by __GFP_HIGH.
__GFP_HIGH does not tell if the caller can block or can trigger reclaim.
There are separate checks to determine that. So, there is no need to
skip reclaiming for __GFP_HIGH allocations. So, handle __GFP_HIGH
together with __GFP_NOFAIL which also does force charging.
Please note that this is a noop change as there are no __GFP_HIGH
allocators in the kernel which also have __GFP_ACCOUNT (or SLAB_ACCOUNT)
and does not allow reclaim for now.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220211064917.2028469-3-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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