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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 21:10:31 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
stable@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
Marcin Wojtas <mw@...ihalf.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.6 08/96] mm, sl[au]b: add __GFP_ATOMIC to the GFP reclaim mask
4.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
commit e838a45f9392a5bd2be1cd3ab0b16ae85857461c upstream.
Commit d0164adc89f6 ("mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable
to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd") modified
__GFP_WAIT to explicitly identify the difference between atomic callers
and those that were unwilling to sleep. Later the definition was
removed entirely.
The GFP_RECLAIM_MASK is the set of flags that affect watermark checking
and reclaim behaviour but __GFP_ATOMIC was never added. Without it,
atomic users of the slab allocator strip the __GFP_ATOMIC flag and
cannot access the page allocator atomic reserves. This patch addresses
the problem.
The user-visible impact depends on the workload but potentially atomic
allocations unnecessarily fail without this path.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160610093832.GK2527@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@...ihalf.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
mm/internal.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
*/
#define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
- __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
+ __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|\
+ __GFP_ATOMIC)
/* The GFP flags allowed during early boot */
#define GFP_BOOT_MASK (__GFP_BITS_MASK & ~(__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS))
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