[patch 1/2] mm: remove GFP_THISNODE
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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: 2015-02-26 00:23:55
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linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem:
memory management, memory management - core, memory management - page allocator, networking [general], openvswitch, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Vlastimil Babka, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Aaron Conole, Eelco Chaudron, Ilya Maximets, Linus Torvalds
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 e97ca8e5b864 ("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_TRANSHUGE entirely. We leave __GFP_THISNODE
to restrict an allocation to a local node, but remove GFP_TRANSHUGE and
it's 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>
---
include/linux/gfp.h | 10 ----------
mm/page_alloc.c | 22 ++++++----------------
mm/slab.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
net/openvswitch/flow.c | 4 +++-
4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h@@ -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)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c@@ -2355,13 +2355,7 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, /* The OOM killer does not compensate for light reclaim */ if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)) 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; }
@@ -2615,15 +2609,11 @@ __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:
@@ -2816,7 +2806,7 @@ __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;
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c@@ -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;
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow.c b/net/openvswitch/flow.c
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow.c@@ -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)) {