kernel_optimize_test/mm
David Rientjes 4167e9b2cf mm: remove GFP_THISNODE
NOTE: this is not about __GFP_THISNODE, this is only about GFP_THISNODE.

GFP_THISNODE is a secret combination of gfp bits that have different
behavior than expected.  It is a combination of __GFP_THISNODE,
__GFP_NORETRY, and __GFP_NOWARN and is special-cased in the page
allocator slowpath to fail without trying reclaim even though it may be
used in combination with __GFP_WAIT.

An example of the problem this creates: commit e97ca8e5b8 ("mm: fix
GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify") fixed up many users of GFP_THISNODE
that really just wanted __GFP_THISNODE.  The problem doesn't end there,
however, because even it was a no-op for alloc_misplaced_dst_page(),
which also sets __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN, and
migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(), where __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWAIT
is set in GFP_TRANSHUGE.  Converting GFP_THISNODE to __GFP_THISNODE is a
no-op in these cases since the page allocator special-cases
__GFP_THISNODE && __GFP_NORETRY && __GFP_NOWARN.

It's time to just remove GFP_THISNODE entirely.  We leave __GFP_THISNODE
to restrict an allocation to a local node, but remove GFP_THISNODE and
its obscurity.  Instead, we require that a caller clear __GFP_WAIT if it
wants to avoid reclaim.

This allows the aforementioned functions to actually reclaim as they
should.  It also enables any future callers that want to do
__GFP_THISNODE but also __GFP_NORETRY && __GFP_NOWARN to reclaim.  The
rule is simple: if you don't want to reclaim, then don't set __GFP_WAIT.

Aside: ovs_flow_stats_update() really wants to avoid reclaim as well, so
it is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Cc: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
..
kasan
backing-dev.c
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c
cleancache.c cleancache: remove limit on the number of cleancache enabled filesystems 2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
cma_debug.c mm-cma-allocation-trigger-fix 2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
cma.c mm: cma: allocation trigger 2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
cma.h mm: cma: allocation trigger 2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
compaction.c mm/compaction: enhance compaction finish condition 2015-04-14 16:49:01 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
debug.c
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c page_writeback: clean up mess around cancel_dirty_page() 2015-04-14 16:49:01 -07:00
frontswap.c
gup.c mm: move mm_populate()-related code to mm/gup.c 2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
highmem.c
huge_memory.c mm: incorporate zero pages into transparent huge pages 2015-04-14 16:49:01 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hugetlb.c
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h mm/compaction: enhance compaction finish condition 2015-04-14 16:49:01 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig mm: cma: debugfs interface 2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c
ksm.c
list_lru.c
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile mm: cma: debugfs interface 2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: rename local variable of memblock_type to `type' 2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: update copyright notice 2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm, hotplug: fix concurrent memory hot-add deadlock 2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
memory-failure.c
memory.c mm: refactor do_wp_page handling of shared vma into a function 2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm, mempolicy: migrate_to_node should only migrate to node 2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm/migrate: mark unmap_and_move() "noinline" to avoid ICE in gcc 4.7.3 2015-04-14 16:48:59 -07:00
mincore.c
mlock.c mm: move mm_populate()-related code to mm/gup.c 2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm: rename __mlock_vma_pages_range() to populate_vma_page_range() 2015-04-14 16:49:00 -07:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page_alloc.c mm: remove GFP_THISNODE 2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page_owner.c
page-writeback.c page_writeback: clean up mess around cancel_dirty_page() 2015-04-14 16:49:01 -07:00
pagewalk.c
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c
shmem.c
slab_common.c
slab.c mm: remove GFP_THISNODE 2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
slab.h
slob.c slob: make slob_alloc_node() static and remove EXPORT_SYMBOL() 2015-04-14 16:48:59 -07:00
slub.c slub: use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0 2015-04-14 16:48:59 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap_cgroup.c
swap_state.c
swap.c
swapfile.c
truncate.c page_writeback: clean up mess around cancel_dirty_page() 2015-04-14 16:49:01 -07:00
util.c
vmacache.c
vmalloc.c
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c
vmstat.c
workingset.c
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c
zswap.c