user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/gfp.h, branch v4.5.6

mm, hugetlb: don't require CMA for runtime gigantic pages

2016-02-06T02:10:40Z

Commit 944d9fec8d7a ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime") has added the runtime gigantic page allocation via alloc_contig_range(), making this support available only when CONFIG_CMA is enabled. Because it doesn't depend on MIGRATE_CMA pageblocks and the associated infrastructure, it is possible with few simple adjustments to require only CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION instead of full CONFIG_CMA. After this patch, alloc_contig_range() and related functions are available and used for gigantic pages with just CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION enabled. Note CONFIG_CMA selects CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION. This allows supporting runtime gigantic pages without the CMA-specific checks in page allocator fastpaths. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Luiz Capitulino Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Zhang Yanfei Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Mike Kravetz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix noisy sparse warning in LIBCFS_ALLOC_PRE()

2016-01-15T00:00:49Z

Running sparse on drivers/staging/lustre results in dozens of warnings: include/linux/gfp.h:281:41: warning: odd constant _Bool cast (400000 becomes 1) Use "!!" to explicitly convert to bool and get rid of the warning. Signed-off-by: Joshua Clayton Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/zonelist: enumerate zonelists array index

2016-01-15T00:00:49Z

Hardcoding index to zonelists array in gfp_zonelist() is not a good idea, let's enumerate it to improve readability. No functional change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=n build] [n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com: fix warning in comparing enumerator] Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: only account kmem allocations marked as __GFP_ACCOUNT

2016-01-15T00:00:49Z

Black-list kmem accounting policy (aka __GFP_NOACCOUNT) turned out to be fragile and difficult to maintain, because there seem to be many more allocations that should not be accounted than those that should be. Besides, false accounting an allocation might result in much worse consequences than not accounting at all, namely increased memory consumption due to pinned dead kmem caches. So this patch switches kmem accounting to the white-policy: now only those kmem allocations that are marked as __GFP_ACCOUNT are accounted to memcg. Currently, no kmem allocations are marked like this. The following patches will mark several kmem allocations that are known to be easily triggered from userspace and therefore should be accounted to memcg. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT"

2016-01-15T00:00:49Z

This reverts commit 8f4fc071b192 ("gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT"). Black-list kmem accounting policy (aka __GFP_NOACCOUNT) turned out to be fragile and difficult to maintain, because there seem to be many more allocations that should not be accounted than those that should be. Besides, false accounting an allocation might result in much worse consequences than not accounting at all, namely increased memory consumption due to pinned dead kmem caches. So it was decided to switch to the white-list policy. This patch reverts bits introducing the black-list policy. The white-list policy will be introduced later in the series. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix up sparse warning in gfpflags_allow_blocking

2015-11-21T00:17:32Z

sparse says: include/linux/gfp.h:274:26: warning: incorrect type in return expression (different base types) include/linux/gfp.h:274:26: expected bool include/linux/gfp.h:274:26: got restricted gfp_t ...add a forced cast to silence the warning. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: page_alloc: hide some GFP internals and document the bits and flag combinations

2015-11-07T01:50:42Z

Andrew stated the following We have quite a history of remote parts of the kernel using weird/wrong/inexplicable combinations of __GFP_ flags. I tend to think that this is because we didn't adequately explain the interface. And I don't think that gfp.h really improved much in this area as a result of this patchset. Could you go through it some time and decide if we've adequately documented all this stuff? This patches first moves some GFP flag combinations that are part of the MM internals to mm/internal.h. The rest of the patch documents the __GFP_FOO bits under various headings and then documents the flag combinations. It will not help callers that are brain damaged but the clarity might motivate some fixes and avoid future mistakes. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM

2015-11-07T01:50:42Z

__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and could not sleep. Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic context and callers that are not willing to sleep. The latter should clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake. As clearing __GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the wrong flags. This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing them prevents it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: page_alloc: remove GFP_IOFS

2015-11-07T01:50:42Z

GFP_IOFS was intended to be shorthand for clearing two flags, not a set of allocation flags. There is only one user of this flag combination now and there appears to be no reason why Lustre had to be protected from reclaim stalls. As none of the sites appear to be atomic, this patch simply deletes GFP_IOFS and converts Lustre to using GFP_KERNEL, GFP_NOFS or GFP_NOIO as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Oleg Drokin Cc: Andreas Dilger Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd

2015-11-07T01:50:42Z

__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold spinlocks or are in interrupts. They are expected to be high priority and have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred to as the "atomic reserve". __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve". Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options were available. Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic reserves. This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic, cannot sleep and have no alternative. High priority users continue to use __GFP_HIGH. __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and are willing to enter direct reclaim. __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim. __GFP_WAIT is redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake kswapd for background reclaim. This patch then converts a number of sites o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag. o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress. o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to flag manipulations. o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons. In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH. The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL. They may now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. It's almost certainly harmless if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds