linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] slab,slub: ignore __GFP_WAIT if we're booting or suspending

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Message-ID: <20090620002817.GA2524@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:28:17 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, npiggin@...e.de,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] slab,slub: ignore __GFP_WAIT if we're booting or
	suspending

On Sat 2009-06-20 09:50:09, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 01:23 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > No. First, code that assumes GFP_KERNEL don't fail is stupid. Any
> > > allocation should always be assumed to potentially fail.
> > 
> > Stupid, yes. Uncommon? Not sure.
> 
> A lot less than it used to be, we've been fixing those by the truckload
> over the past few years. But again, if allocations start failing that
> early at boot, you are likely to be doomed anyway. Still, better to do
> proper error handling, and I think we -mostly- do (ok, not -always-).
> 
> > > Then, if you start failing allocations at boot time, then you aren't
> > > going anywhere are you ?
> > 
> > Exactly. So boot code should have access to all the memory, right?
> > Setting some aside for GFP_ATOMIC does not make sense in that context.
> 
> I'm not certain what you mean here. If you're going to hit the atomic
> reserve that early, you aren't going anywhere neither :-)
> 
> Is there any real problem you are trying to solve here or is it all
> just academic ?

Academic for boot, probably real for suspend/resume. There the atomic
reserves could matter because the memory can be pretty full when you
start suspend.
								Pavel
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