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[PATCH] mempool: NOMEMALLOC and NORETRY

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Mempools have 2 problems.

The first is that mempool_alloc can possibly get stuck in __alloc_pages
when they should opt to fail, and take an element from their reserved pool.

The second is that it will happily eat emergency PF_MEMALLOC reserves
instead of going to their reserved pools.

Fix the first by passing __GFP_NORETRY in the allocation calls in
mempool_alloc.  Fix the second by introducing a __GFP_MEMPOOL flag which
directs the page allocator not to allocate from the reserve pool.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Nick Piggin 2005-05-01 08:58:36 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8e30f272a9
commit b84a35be02
3 changed files with 23 additions and 12 deletions
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include/linux/gfp.h
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@ -38,14 +38,16 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define __GFP_NO_GROW 0x2000u /* Slab internal usage */
#define __GFP_COMP 0x4000u /* Add compound page metadata */
#define __GFP_ZERO 0x8000u /* Return zeroed page on success */
#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC 0x10000u /* Don't use emergency reserves */
#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT 16 /* Room for 16 __GFP_FOO bits */
#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT 20 /* Room for 20 __GFP_FOO bits */
#define __GFP_BITS_MASK ((1 << __GFP_BITS_SHIFT) - 1)
/* if you forget to add the bitmask here kernel will crash, period */
#define GFP_LEVEL_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS| \
__GFP_COLD|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT| \
__GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_GROW|__GFP_COMP)
__GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_GROW|__GFP_COMP| \
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
#define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH)
#define GFP_NOIO (__GFP_WAIT)

9
mm/mempool.c
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@ -198,11 +198,16 @@ void * mempool_alloc(mempool_t *pool, unsigned int __nocast gfp_mask)
void *element;
unsigned long flags;
DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
int gfp_nowait = gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO);
int gfp_nowait;
gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOMEMALLOC; /* don't allocate emergency reserves */
gfp_mask |= __GFP_NORETRY; /* don't loop in __alloc_pages */
gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOWARN; /* failures are OK */
gfp_nowait = gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO);
might_sleep_if(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT);
repeat_alloc:
element = pool->alloc(gfp_nowait|__GFP_NOWARN, pool->pool_data);
element = pool->alloc(gfp_nowait, pool->pool_data);
if (likely(element != NULL))
return element;

6
mm/page_alloc.c
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@ -799,7 +799,10 @@ __alloc_pages(unsigned int __nocast gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
}
/* This allocation should allow future memory freeing. */
if (((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) || unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))) && !in_interrupt()) {
if (((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) || unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)))
&& !in_interrupt()) {
if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) {
/* go through the zonelist yet again, ignoring mins */
for (i = 0; (z = zones[i]) != NULL; i++) {
if (!cpuset_zone_allowed(z))
@ -808,6 +811,7 @@ __alloc_pages(unsigned int __nocast gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
if (page)
goto got_pg;
}
}
goto nopage;
}