From 9a8da05d7ad619beb84d0c6904c3fa7022c6fb9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:11:51 +0200 Subject: Revert "mm: introduce PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM, PF_MEMALLOC_NOWARN" This reverts commit eab0af905bfc3e9c05da2ca163d76a1513159aa4. There is no existing user of those flags. PF_MEMALLOC_NOWARN is dangerous because a nested allocation context can use GFP_NOFAIL which could cause unexpected failure. Such a code would be hard to maintain because it could be deeper in the call chain. PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM has been added even when it was pointed out [1] that such a allocation contex is inherently unsafe if the context doesn't fully control all allocations called from this context. While PF_MEMALLOC_NOWARN is not dangerous the way PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM is it doesn't have any user and as Matthew has pointed out we are running out of those flags so better reclaim it without any real users. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZcM0xtlKbAOFjv5n@tiehlicka/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240926172940.167084-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: James Morris Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Paul Moore Cc: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Yafang Shao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/sched/mm.h | 17 ++++------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sched') diff --git a/include/linux/sched/mm.h b/include/linux/sched/mm.h index 07bb8d4181d7..928a626725e6 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/mm.h @@ -251,25 +251,16 @@ static inline gfp_t current_gfp_context(gfp_t flags) { unsigned int pflags = READ_ONCE(current->flags); - if (unlikely(pflags & (PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO | - PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS | - PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM | - PF_MEMALLOC_NOWARN | - PF_MEMALLOC_PIN))) { + if (unlikely(pflags & (PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO | PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS | PF_MEMALLOC_PIN))) { /* - * Stronger flags before weaker flags: - * NORECLAIM implies NOIO, which in turn implies NOFS + * NOIO implies both NOIO and NOFS and it is a weaker context + * so always make sure it makes precedence */ - if (pflags & PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM) - flags &= ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM; - else if (pflags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO) + if (pflags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO) flags &= ~(__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS); else if (pflags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS) flags &= ~__GFP_FS; - if (pflags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOWARN) - flags |= __GFP_NOWARN; - if (pflags & PF_MEMALLOC_PIN) flags &= ~__GFP_MOVABLE; } -- cgit v1.2.3