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| author | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2022-07-01 23:04:43 +0300 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2022-07-25 03:39:32 +0300 |
| commit | 0dd316ba8692c2374fbb82cce57c0b23144f2977 (patch) | |
| tree | 8daef3b112bfa06b7c1b95b6409060f03f7d5137 /mm | |
| parent | 1aa91d9c993397858a50c433933ea119903fdea2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0dd316ba8692c2374fbb82cce57c0b23144f2977.tar.xz | |
mm: honor FGP_NOWAIT for page cache page allocation
If we're creating a page cache page with FGP_CREAT but FGP_NOWAIT is
set, we should dial back the gfp flags to avoid frivolous blocking
which is trivial to hit in low memory conditions:
[ 10.117661] __schedule+0x8c/0x550
[ 10.118305] schedule+0x58/0xa0
[ 10.118897] schedule_timeout+0x30/0xdc
[ 10.119610] __wait_for_common+0x88/0x114
[ 10.120348] wait_for_completion+0x1c/0x24
[ 10.121103] __flush_work.isra.0+0x16c/0x19c
[ 10.121896] flush_work+0xc/0x14
[ 10.122496] __drain_all_pages+0x144/0x218
[ 10.123267] drain_all_pages+0x10/0x18
[ 10.123941] __alloc_pages+0x464/0x9e4
[ 10.124633] __folio_alloc+0x18/0x3c
[ 10.125294] __filemap_get_folio+0x17c/0x204
[ 10.126084] iomap_write_begin+0xf8/0x428
[ 10.126829] iomap_file_buffered_write+0x144/0x24c
[ 10.127710] xfs_file_buffered_write+0xe8/0x248
[ 10.128553] xfs_file_write_iter+0xa8/0x120
[ 10.129324] io_write+0x16c/0x38c
[ 10.129940] io_issue_sqe+0x70/0x1cc
[ 10.130617] io_queue_sqe+0x18/0xfc
[ 10.131277] io_submit_sqes+0x5d4/0x600
[ 10.131946] __arm64_sys_io_uring_enter+0x224/0x600
[ 10.132752] invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x70/0xc0
[ 10.133616] do_el0_svc+0xd0/0x118
[ 10.134238] el0_svc+0x78/0xa0
Clear IO, FS, and reclaim flags and mark the allocation as GFP_NOWAIT and
add __GFP_NOWARN to avoid polluting dmesg with pointless allocations
failures. A caller with FGP_NOWAIT must be expected to handle the
resulting -EAGAIN return and retry from a suitable context without NOWAIT
set.
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/filemap.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index ffdfbc8b0e3c..254931a6e3ed 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -1988,6 +1988,10 @@ no_page: gfp |= __GFP_WRITE; if (fgp_flags & FGP_NOFS) gfp &= ~__GFP_FS; + if (fgp_flags & FGP_NOWAIT) { + gfp &= ~GFP_KERNEL; + gfp |= GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN; + } folio = filemap_alloc_folio(gfp, 0); if (!folio) |