__GFP_ATOMIC serves little purpose. Its main effect is to set
ALLOC_HARDER which adds a few little boosts to increase the chance of an
allocation succeeding, one of which is to lower the water-mark at which it
will succeed.
It is *always* paired with __GFP_HIGH which sets ALLOC_HIGH which also
adjusts this watermark. It is probable that other users of __GFP_HIGH
should benefit from the other little bonuses that __GFP_ATOMIC gets.
__GFP_ATOMIC also gives a warning if used with __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM.
There is little point to this. We already get a might_sleep() warning if
__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is set.
__GFP_ATOMIC allows the "watermark_boost" to be side-stepped. It is
probable that testing ALLOC_HARDER is a better fit here.
__GFP_ATOMIC is used by tegra-smmu.c to check if the allocation might
sleep. This should test __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM instead.
This patch:
- removes __GFP_ATOMIC
- allows __GFP_HIGH allocations to ignore watermark boosting as well
as GFP_ATOMIC requests.
- makes other adjustments as suggested by the above.
The net result is not change to GFP_ATOMIC allocations. Other
allocations that use __GFP_HIGH will benefit from a few different extra
privileges. This affects:
xen, dm, md, ntfs3
the vermillion frame buffer
hibernation
ksm
swap
all of which likely produce more benefit than cost if these selected
allocation are more likely to succeed quickly.
[mgorman: Minor adjustments to rework on top of a series]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163712397076.13692.4727608274002939094@noble.neil.brown.name
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230113111217.14134-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Started Jan 2000 by Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@sgi.com>
-Memory balancing is needed for !__GFP_ATOMIC and !__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM as
+Memory balancing is needed for !__GFP_HIGH and !__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM as
well as for non __GFP_IO allocations.
The first reason why a caller may avoid reclaim is that the caller can not
* allocate page in a sleeping context if GFP flags permit. Hence
* spinlock needs to be unlocked and re-locked after allocation.
*/
- if (!(gfp & __GFP_ATOMIC))
+ if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp))
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&as->lock, *flags);
page = alloc_page(gfp | __GFP_DMA | __GFP_ZERO);
- if (!(gfp & __GFP_ATOMIC))
+ if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp))
spin_lock_irqsave(&as->lock, *flags);
/*
#define ___GFP_IO 0x40u
#define ___GFP_FS 0x80u
#define ___GFP_ZERO 0x100u
-#define ___GFP_ATOMIC 0x200u
+/* 0x200u unused */
#define ___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM 0x400u
#define ___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM 0x800u
#define ___GFP_WRITE 0x1000u
*
* %__GFP_HIGH indicates that the caller is high-priority and that granting
* the request is necessary before the system can make forward progress.
- * For example, creating an IO context to clean pages.
- *
- * %__GFP_ATOMIC indicates that the caller cannot reclaim or sleep and is
- * high priority. Users are typically interrupt handlers. This may be
- * used in conjunction with %__GFP_HIGH
+ * For example creating an IO context to clean pages and requests
+ * from atomic context.
*
* %__GFP_MEMALLOC allows access to all memory. This should only be used when
* the caller guarantees the allocation will allow more memory to be freed
* %__GFP_NOMEMALLOC is used to explicitly forbid access to emergency reserves.
* This takes precedence over the %__GFP_MEMALLOC flag if both are set.
*/
-#define __GFP_ATOMIC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_ATOMIC)
#define __GFP_HIGH ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_HIGH)
#define __GFP_MEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_MEMALLOC)
#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
* version does not attempt reclaim/compaction at all and is by default used
* in page fault path, while the non-light is used by khugepaged.
*/
-#define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
+#define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
#define GFP_KERNEL (__GFP_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
#define GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ACCOUNT)
#define GFP_NOWAIT (__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
gfpflag_string(__GFP_HIGHMEM), \
gfpflag_string(GFP_DMA32), \
gfpflag_string(__GFP_HIGH), \
- gfpflag_string(__GFP_ATOMIC), \
gfpflag_string(__GFP_IO), \
gfpflag_string(__GFP_FS), \
gfpflag_string(__GFP_NOWARN), \
gfp = GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_DMA;
test("GFP_ATOMIC|GFP_DMA", "%pGg", &gfp);
- gfp = __GFP_ATOMIC;
- test("__GFP_ATOMIC", "%pGg", &gfp);
+ gfp = __GFP_HIGH;
+ test("__GFP_HIGH", "%pGg", &gfp);
/* Any flags not translated by the table should remain numeric */
gfp = ~__GFP_BITS_MASK;
snprintf(cmp_buffer, BUF_SIZE, "%#lx", (unsigned long) gfp);
test(cmp_buffer, "%pGg", &gfp);
- snprintf(cmp_buffer, BUF_SIZE, "__GFP_ATOMIC|%#lx",
+ snprintf(cmp_buffer, BUF_SIZE, "__GFP_HIGH|%#lx",
(unsigned long) gfp);
- gfp |= __GFP_ATOMIC;
+ gfp |= __GFP_HIGH;
test(cmp_buffer, "%pGg", &gfp);
kfree(cmp_buffer);
#define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|\
- __GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOLOCKDEP)
+ __GFP_NOLOCKDEP)
/* The GFP flags allowed during early boot */
#define GFP_BOOT_MASK (__GFP_BITS_MASK & ~(__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS))
if (__zone_watermark_ok(z, order, mark, highest_zoneidx, alloc_flags,
free_pages))
return true;
+
/*
- * Ignore watermark boosting for GFP_ATOMIC order-0 allocations
+ * Ignore watermark boosting for __GFP_HIGH order-0 allocations
* when checking the min watermark. The min watermark is the
* point where boosting is ignored so that kswapd is woken up
* when below the low watermark.
*/
- if (unlikely(!order && (gfp_mask & __GFP_ATOMIC) && z->watermark_boost
+ if (unlikely(!order && (alloc_flags & ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE) && z->watermark_boost
&& ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK) == WMARK_MIN))) {
mark = z->_watermark[WMARK_MIN];
return __zone_watermark_ok(z, order, mark, highest_zoneidx,
unsigned int zonelist_iter_cookie;
int reserve_flags;
- /*
- * We also sanity check to catch abuse of atomic reserves being used by
- * callers that are not in atomic context.
- */
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_mask & (__GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM)) ==
- (__GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM)))
- gfp_mask &= ~__GFP_ATOMIC;
-
restart:
compaction_retries = 0;
no_progress_loops = 0;
{ "__GFP_HIGHMEM", "HM" },
{ "GFP_DMA32", "D32" },
{ "__GFP_HIGH", "H" },
- { "__GFP_ATOMIC", "_A" },
{ "__GFP_IO", "I" },
{ "__GFP_FS", "F" },
{ "__GFP_NOWARN", "NWR" },
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