linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/vmalloc: Remove gfpflags_allow

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Date:   Mon,  5 Jul 2021 19:05:37 +0200
From:   "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@...ymobile.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/vmalloc: Remove gfpflags_allow_blocking() check

Get rid of gfpflags_allow_blocking() check from the vmalloc() path
as it is supposed to be sleepable anyway. Thus remove it from the
alloc_vmap_area() as well as from the vm_area_alloc_pages().

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 18 ++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 5297958ac7c5..93a9cbdba905 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1479,6 +1479,7 @@ static struct vmap_area *alloc_vmap_area(unsigned long size,
 				int node, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
 	struct vmap_area *va;
+	unsigned long freed;
 	unsigned long addr;
 	int purged = 0;
 	int ret;
@@ -1542,13 +1543,12 @@ static struct vmap_area *alloc_vmap_area(unsigned long size,
 		goto retry;
 	}
 
-	if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask)) {
-		unsigned long freed = 0;
-		blocking_notifier_call_chain(&vmap_notify_list, 0, &freed);
-		if (freed > 0) {
-			purged = 0;
-			goto retry;
-		}
+	freed = 0;
+	blocking_notifier_call_chain(&vmap_notify_list, 0, &freed);
+
+	if (freed > 0) {
+		purged = 0;
+		goto retry;
 	}
 
 	if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) && printk_ratelimit())
@@ -2834,9 +2834,7 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
 		for (i = 0; i < (1U << order); i++)
 			pages[nr_allocated + i] = page + i;
 
-		if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp))
-			cond_resched();
-
+		cond_resched();
 		nr_allocated += 1U << order;
 	}
 
-- 
2.20.1