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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-08-01 01:44:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-08-01 03:42:45 +0200 |
| commit | cfd19c5a9ecf8e5e38de2603077c4330af21316e (patch) | |
| tree | 5ecf3f51012676c60d12e78ad5a762597ec26385 /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context (diff) | |
| download | linux-cfd19c5a9ecf8e5e38de2603077c4330af21316e.tar.xz linux-cfd19c5a9ecf8e5e38de2603077c4330af21316e.zip | |
mm: only set page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was used
__alloc_pages_slowpath() is called when the number of free pages is below
the low watermark. If the caller is entitled to use ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS
then the page will be marked page->pfmemalloc. This protects more pages
than are strictly necessary as we only need to protect pages allocated
below the min watermark (the pfmemalloc reserves).
This patch only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was
required to allocate the page.
[rientjes@google.com: David noticed the problem during review]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index cd5390f2f18d..f9d925451bfd 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2116,8 +2116,8 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, nodemask, order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, - alloc_flags, preferred_zone, - migratetype); + alloc_flags & ~ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, + preferred_zone, migratetype); if (page) { preferred_zone->compact_considered = 0; preferred_zone->compact_defer_shift = 0; @@ -2209,8 +2209,8 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, retry: page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, nodemask, order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, - alloc_flags, preferred_zone, - migratetype); + alloc_flags & ~ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, + preferred_zone, migratetype); /* * If an allocation failed after direct reclaim, it could be because @@ -2381,8 +2381,17 @@ rebalance: page = __alloc_pages_high_priority(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask, preferred_zone, migratetype); - if (page) + if (page) { + /* + * page->pfmemalloc is set when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was + * necessary to allocate the page. 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 = true; goto got_pg; + } } /* Atomic allocations - we can't balance anything */ @@ -2499,14 +2508,6 @@ nopage: warn_alloc_failed(gfp_mask, order, NULL); return page; got_pg: - /* - * 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_NO_WATERMARKS); - if (kmemcheck_enabled) kmemcheck_pagealloc_alloc(page, order, gfp_mask); |