kernel/linux.git/include/linux/gfp.h, branch linux-4.3.y

mm: use numa_mem_id() in alloc_pages_node()

2015-09-08T22:35:28+00:00

alloc_pages_node() might fail when called with NUMA_NO_NODE and __GFP_THISNODE on a CPU belonging to a memoryless node. To make the local-node fallback more robust and prevent such situations, use numa_mem_id(), which was introduced for similar scenarios in the slab context. Suggested-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: unify checks in alloc_pages_node() and __alloc_pages_node()

2015-09-08T22:35:28+00:00

Perform the same debug checks in alloc_pages_node() as are done in __alloc_pages_node(), by making the former function a wrapper of the latter one. In addition to better diagnostics in DEBUG_VM builds for situations which have been already fatal (e.g. out-of-bounds node id), there are two visible changes for potential existing buggy callers of alloc_pages_node(): - calling alloc_pages_node() with any negative nid (e.g. due to arithmetic overflow) was treated as passing NUMA_NO_NODE and fallback to local node was applied. This will now be fatal. - calling alloc_pages_node() with an offline node will now be checked for DEBUG_VM builds. Since it's not fatal if the node has been previously online, and this patch may expose some existing buggy callers, change the VM_BUG_ON in __alloc_pages_node() to VM_WARN_ON. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node()

2015-09-08T22:35:28+00:00

alloc_pages_exact_node() was introduced in commit 6484eb3e2a81 ("page allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is valid") as an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node(), that doesn't fallback to current node for nid == NUMA_NO_NODE. Unfortunately the name of the function can easily suggest that the allocation is restricted to the given node and fails otherwise. In truth, the node is only preferred, unless __GFP_THISNODE is passed among the gfp flags. The misleading name has lead to mistakes in the past, see for example commits 5265047ac301 ("mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage allocation to local node") and b360edb43f8e ("mm, mempolicy: migrate_to_node should only migrate to node"). Another issue with the name is that there's a family of alloc_pages_exact*() functions where 'exact' means exact size (instead of page order), which leads to more confusion. To prevent further mistakes, this patch effectively renames alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() to better convey that it's an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node() not intended for general usage. Both functions get described in comments. It has been also considered to really provide a convenience function for allocations restricted to a node, but the major opinion seems to be that __GFP_THISNODE already provides that functionality and we shouldn't duplicate the API needlessly. The number of users would be small anyway. Existing callers of alloc_pages_exact_node() are simply converted to call __alloc_pages_node(), with the exception of sba_alloc_coherent() which open-codes the check for NUMA_NO_NODE, so it is converted to use alloc_pages_node() instead. This means it no longer performs some VM_BUG_ON checks, and since the current check for nid in alloc_pages_node() uses a 'nid < 0' comparison (which includes NUMA_NO_NODE), it may hide wrong values which would be previously exposed. Both differences will be rectified by the next patch. To sum up, this patch makes no functional changes, except temporarily hiding potentially buggy callers. Restricting the checks in alloc_pages_node() is left for the next patch which can in turn expose more existing buggy callers. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Robin Holt Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Michael Ellerman Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Gleb Natapov Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Cliff Whickman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: improve __GFP_NORETRY comment based on implementation

2015-09-08T22:35:28+00:00

Explicitly state that __GFP_NORETRY will attempt direct reclaim and memory compaction before returning NULL and that the oom killer is not called in the current implementation of the page allocator. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/has/have/] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: meminit: finish initialisation of struct pages before basic setup

2015-07-01T02:44:56+00:00

Waiman Long reported that 24TB machines hit OOM during basic setup when struct page initialisation was deferred. One approach is to initialise memory on demand but it interferes with page allocator paths. This patch creates dedicated threads to initialise memory before basic setup. It then blocks on a rw_semaphore until completion as a wait_queue and counter is overkill. This may be slower to boot but it's simplier overall and also gets rid of a section mangling which existed so kswapd could do the initialisation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: include rwsem.h, use DECLARE_RWSEM, fix comment, remove unneeded cast] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Scott Norton Tested-by: Daniel J Blueman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2015-05-23T05:22:35+00:00

Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c drivers/net/phy/phy.c include/linux/skbuff.h net/ipv4/tcp.c net/switchdev/switchdev.c Switchdev was a case of RTNH_H_{EXTERNAL --> OFFLOAD} renaming overlapping with net-next changes of various sorts. phy.c was a case of two changes, one adding a local variable to a function whilst the second was removing one. tcp.c overlapped a deadlock fix with the addition of new tcp_info statistic values. macb.c involved the addition of two zyncq device entries. skbuff.h involved adding back ipv4_daddr to nf_bridge_info whilst net-next changes put two other existing members of that struct into a union. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT

2015-05-15T00:55:51+00:00

Not all kmem allocations should be accounted to memcg. The following patch gives an example when accounting of a certain type of allocations to memcg can effectively result in a memory leak. This patch adds the __GFP_NOACCOUNT flag which if passed to kmalloc and friends will force the allocation to go through the root cgroup. It will be used by the next patch. Note, since in case of kmemleak enabled each kmalloc implies yet another allocation from the kmemleak_object cache, we add __GFP_NOACCOUNT to gfp_kmemleak_mask. Alternatively, we could introduce a per kmem cache flag disabling accounting for all allocations of a particular kind, but (a) we would not be able to bypass accounting for kmalloc then and (b) a kmem cache with this flag set could not be merged with a kmem cache without this flag, which would increase the number of global caches and therefore fragmentation even if the memory cgroup controller is not used. Despite its generic name, currently __GFP_NOACCOUNT disables accounting only for kmem allocations while user page allocations are always charged. To catch abusing of this flag, a warning is issued on an attempt of passing it to mem_cgroup_try_charge. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: [4.0.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/net: Rename and move page fragment handling from net/ to mm/

2015-05-12T14:39:26+00:00

This change moves the __alloc_page_frag functionality out of the networking stack and into the page allocation portion of mm. The idea it so help make this maintainable by placing it with other page allocation functions. Since we are moving it from skbuff.c to page_alloc.c I have also renamed the basic defines and structure from netdev_alloc_cache to page_frag_cache to reflect that this is now part of a different kernel subsystem. I have also added a simple __free_page_frag function which can handle freeing the frags based on the skb->head pointer. The model for this is based off of __free_pages since we don't actually need to deal with all of the cases that put_page handles. I incorporated the virt_to_head_page call and compound_order into the function as it actually allows for a signficant size reduction by reducing code duplication. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mm: clarify __GFP_NOFAIL deprecation status

2015-04-14T23:49:04+00:00

__GFP_NOFAIL is documented as a deprecated flag since commit 478352e789f5 ("mm: add comment about deprecation of __GFP_NOFAIL"). This has discouraged people from using it but in some cases an opencoded endless loop around allocator has been used instead. So the allocator is not aware of the de facto __GFP_NOFAIL allocation because this information was not communicated properly. Let's make clear that if the allocation context really cannot afford failure because there is no good failure policy then using __GFP_NOFAIL is preferable to opencoding the loop outside of the allocator. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Vipul Pandya Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove GFP_THISNODE

2015-04-14T23:49:03+00:00

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 e97ca8e5b864 ("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 Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Cc: Joonsoo Kim Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Pravin Shelar Cc: Jarno Rajahalme Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds