From 4034247a0d6ab281ba3293798ce67af494d86129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 14:07:14 -0800 Subject: mm: introduce memalloc_retry_wait() Various places in the kernel - largely in filesystems - respond to a memory allocation failure by looping around and re-trying. Some of these cannot conveniently use __GFP_NOFAIL, for reasons such as: - a GFP_ATOMIC allocation, which __GFP_NOFAIL doesn't work on - a need to check for the process being signalled between failures - the possibility that other recovery actions could be performed - the allocation is quite deep in support code, and passing down an extra flag to say if __GFP_NOFAIL is wanted would be clumsy. Many of these currently use congestion_wait() which (in almost all cases) simply waits the given timeout - congestion isn't tracked for most devices. It isn't clear what the best delay is for loops, but it is clear that the various filesystems shouldn't be responsible for choosing a timeout. This patch introduces memalloc_retry_wait() with takes on that responsibility. Code that wants to retry a memory allocation can call this function passing the GFP flags that were used. It will wait however is appropriate. For now, it only considers __GFP_NORETRY and whatever gfpflags_allow_blocking() tests. If blocking is allowed without __GFP_NORETRY, then alloc_page either made some reclaim progress, or waited for a while, before failing. So there is no need for much further waiting. memalloc_retry_wait() will wait until the current jiffie ends. If this condition is not met, then alloc_page() won't have waited much if at all. In that case memalloc_retry_wait() waits about 200ms. This is the delay that most current loops uses. linux/sched/mm.h needs to be included in some files now, but linux/backing-dev.h does not. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163754371968.13692.1277530886009912421@noble.neil.brown.name Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Jaegeuk Kim Cc: Chao Yu Cc: Darrick J. Wong Cc: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/f2fs/inode.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/f2fs/inode.c') diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c index 0f8b2df3e1e0..4c11254a07d4 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ #include #include #include -#include #include +#include #include "f2fs.h" #include "node.h" @@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ retry: inode = f2fs_iget(sb, ino); if (IS_ERR(inode)) { if (PTR_ERR(inode) == -ENOMEM) { - congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, DEFAULT_IO_TIMEOUT); + memalloc_retry_wait(GFP_NOFS); goto retry; } } -- cgit v1.2.3