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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQU2pJfCTmZjMG7SggjBZUfsnBArhGCxhaKQSZCojwfZPQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 May 2012 12:23:13 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 08/10] mm: nobootmem: unify allocation policy of
 (non-)panicking node allocations

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:
> While the panicking node-specific allocation function tries to satisfy
> node+goal, goal, node, anywhere, the non-panicking function still does
> node+goal, goal, anywhere.
>
> Make it simpler: define the panicking version in terms of the
> non-panicking one, like the node-agnostic interface, so they always
> behave the same way apart from how to deal with allocation failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> ---
>  mm/nobootmem.c |  106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>  1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c
> index b078ff8..77069bb 100644
> --- a/mm/nobootmem.c
> +++ b/mm/nobootmem.c
> @@ -275,6 +275,57 @@ void * __init __alloc_bootmem(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
>        return ___alloc_bootmem(size, align, goal, limit);
>  }
>
> +static void * __init ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pg_data_t *pgdat,
> +                                                  unsigned long size,
> +                                                  unsigned long align,
> +                                                  unsigned long goal,
> +                                                  unsigned long limit)
> +{
> +       void *ptr;
> +
> +again:
> +       ptr = __alloc_memory_core_early(pgdat->node_id, size, align,
> +                                       goal, limit);
> +       if (ptr)
> +               return ptr;
> +
> +       ptr = __alloc_memory_core_early(MAX_NUMNODES, size, align,
> +                                       goal, limit);
> +       if (ptr)
> +               return ptr;
> +
> +       if (goal) {
> +               goal = 0;
> +               goto again;
> +       }
> +
> +       return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
> +                                  unsigned long align, unsigned long goal)
> +{
> +       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(slab_is_available()))
> +               return kzalloc_node(size, GFP_NOWAIT, pgdat->node_id);
> +
> +       return ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pgdat, size, align, goal, 0);
> +}
> +
> +void * __init ___alloc_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
> +                                   unsigned long align, unsigned long goal,
> +                                   unsigned long limit)
> +{
> +       void *ptr;
> +
> +       ptr = ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pgdat, size, align, goal, limit);
> +       if (ptr)
> +               return ptr;
> +
> +       printk(KERN_ALERT "bootmem alloc of %lu bytes failed!\n", size);
> +       panic("Out of memory");
> +       return NULL;
> +}
> +
>  /**
>  * __alloc_bootmem_node - allocate boot memory from a specific node
>  * @pgdat: node to allocate from
> @@ -293,30 +344,10 @@ void * __init __alloc_bootmem(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
>  void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
>                                   unsigned long align, unsigned long goal)
>  {
> -       void *ptr;
> -
>        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(slab_is_available()))
>                return kzalloc_node(size, GFP_NOWAIT, pgdat->node_id);
>
> -again:
> -       ptr = __alloc_memory_core_early(pgdat->node_id, size, align,
> -                                        goal, -1ULL);
> -       if (ptr)
> -               return ptr;
> -
> -       ptr = __alloc_memory_core_early(MAX_NUMNODES, size, align,
> -                                       goal, -1ULL);
> -       if (ptr)
> -               return ptr;
> -
> -       if (goal) {
> -               goal = 0;
> -               goto again;
> -       }
> -
> -       printk(KERN_ALERT "bootmem alloc of %lu bytes failed!\n", size);
> -       panic("Out of memory");
> -       return NULL;
> +       return ___alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, size, align, goal, 0);
>  }
>
>  void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node_high(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
> @@ -347,22 +378,6 @@ void * __init alloc_bootmem_section(unsigned long size,
>  }
>  #endif
>
> -void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
> -                                  unsigned long align, unsigned long goal)
> -{
> -       void *ptr;
> -
> -       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(slab_is_available()))
> -               return kzalloc_node(size, GFP_NOWAIT, pgdat->node_id);
> -
> -       ptr =  __alloc_memory_core_early(pgdat->node_id, size, align,
> -                                                goal, -1ULL);
> -       if (ptr)
> -               return ptr;
> -
> -       return __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size, align, goal);
> -}
> -
>  #ifndef ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT
>  #define ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT 0xffffffffUL
>  #endif
> @@ -404,22 +419,9 @@ void * __init __alloc_bootmem_low(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
>  void * __init __alloc_bootmem_low_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
>                                       unsigned long align, unsigned long goal)
>  {
> -       void *ptr;
> -
>        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(slab_is_available()))
>                return kzalloc_node(size, GFP_NOWAIT, pgdat->node_id);
>
> -       ptr = __alloc_memory_core_early(pgdat->node_id, size, align,
> -                               goal, ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
> -       if (ptr)
> -               return ptr;
> -
> -       ptr = __alloc_memory_core_early(MAX_NUMNODES, size, align,
> -                                       goal, ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
> -       if (ptr)
> -               return ptr;
> -
> -       printk(KERN_ALERT "bootmem alloc of %lu bytes failed!\n", size);
> -       panic("Out of memory");
> -       return NULL;
> +       return ___alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, size, align, goal,
> +                                    ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
>  }
> --

Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
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