mm, sl[au]b: add __GFP_ATOMIC to the GFP reclaim mask
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Fri, 24 Jun 2016 21:49:37 +0000 (14:49 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:23:52 +0000 (17:23 -0700)
Commit d0164adc89f6 ("mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable
to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd") modified
__GFP_WAIT to explicitly identify the difference between atomic callers
and those that were unwilling to sleep.  Later the definition was
removed entirely.

The GFP_RECLAIM_MASK is the set of flags that affect watermark checking
and reclaim behaviour but __GFP_ATOMIC was never added.  Without it,
atomic users of the slab allocator strip the __GFP_ATOMIC flag and
cannot access the page allocator atomic reserves.  This patch addresses
the problem.

The user-visible impact depends on the workload but potentially atomic
allocations unnecessarily fail without this path.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160610093832.GK2527@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/internal.h

index a37e5b6f9d25ca1cfd31938eebee0f90054ed4de..2524ec880e242ceb6efb5531b21f4bade9e9a3c0 100644 (file)
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
  */
 #define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
                        __GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
-                       __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
+                       __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|\
+                       __GFP_ATOMIC)
 
 /* The GFP flags allowed during early boot */
 #define GFP_BOOT_MASK (__GFP_BITS_MASK & ~(__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS))