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| author | Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> | 2017-07-12 14:36:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-07-12 16:26:03 -0700 |
| commit | cc965a29db172c28e25b9742db86a85766a08bf5 (patch) | |
| tree | a7d3cda66f1d8a3ca31a394b4169040e1187e0f1 /mm/util.c | |
| parent | 91c63ecda75d3004da8ffd5d2590383e0ba47722 (diff) | |
| download | linux-cc965a29db172c28e25b9742db86a85766a08bf5.tar.bz2 | |
mm: kvmalloc support __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL for all sizes
Now that __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL has a reasonable semantic regardless of the
request size we can drop the hackish implementation for !costly orders.
__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL retries as long as the reclaim makes a forward
progress and backs of when we are out of memory for the requested size.
Therefore we do not need to enforce__GFP_NORETRY for !costly orders just
to silent the oom killer anymore.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623085345.11304-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alex Belits <alex.belits@cavium.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 6520f2d4a226..ee250e2cde34 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -339,9 +339,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap); * Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back * to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory. * - * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL - * is supported only for large (>32kB) allocations, and it should be used only if - * kmalloc is preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks. + * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. + * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is supported, and it should be used only if kmalloc is + * preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks. * * Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted with mm people. */ @@ -366,13 +366,7 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) if (size > PAGE_SIZE) { kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN; - /* - * We have to override __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL by __GFP_NORETRY for !costly - * requests because there is no other way to tell the allocator - * that we want to fail rather than retry endlessly. - */ - if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) || - (size <= PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)) + if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL)) kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY; } |