From e97ca8e5b864f88b028c1759ba8536fa827d6d96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:49:43 -0700 Subject: mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify GFP_THISNODE is for callers that implement their own clever fallback to remote nodes. It restricts the allocation to the specified node and does not invoke reclaim, assuming that the caller will take care of it when the fallback fails, e.g. through a subsequent allocation request without GFP_THISNODE set. However, many current GFP_THISNODE users only want the node exclusive aspect of the flag, without actually implementing their own fallback or triggering reclaim if necessary. This results in things like page migration failing prematurely even when there is easily reclaimable memory available, unless kswapd happens to be running already or a concurrent allocation attempt triggers the necessary reclaim. Convert all callsites that don't implement their own fallback strategy to __GFP_THISNODE. This restricts the allocation a single node too, but at the same time allows the allocator to enter the slowpath, wake kswapd, and invoke direct reclaim if necessary, to make the allocation happen when memory is full. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Jan Stancek Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/ia64') diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c index a96bcf83a735..20e8a9b21d75 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static int uncached_add_chunk(struct uncached_pool *uc_pool, int nid) /* attempt to allocate a granule's worth of cached memory pages */ page = alloc_pages_exact_node(nid, - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | GFP_THISNODE, + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_THISNODE, IA64_GRANULE_SHIFT-PAGE_SHIFT); if (!page) { mutex_unlock(&uc_pool->add_chunk_mutex); -- cgit v1.2.3