linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/vmalloc: alloc GFP

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Date:   Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:13:32 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/vmalloc: alloc GFP_NO{FS,IO} for vmalloc

On 11/22/21 16:32, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> 
> vmalloc historically hasn't supported GFP_NO{FS,IO} requests because
> page table allocations do not support externally provided gfp mask
> and performed GFP_KERNEL like allocations.
> 
> Since few years we have scope (memalloc_no{fs,io}_{save,restore}) APIs
> to enforce NOFS and NOIO constrains implicitly to all allocators within
> the scope. There was a hope that those scopes would be defined on a
> higher level when the reclaim recursion boundary starts/stops (e.g. when
> a lock required during the memory reclaim is required etc.). It seems
> that not all NOFS/NOIO users have adopted this approach and instead
> they have taken a workaround approach to wrap a single [k]vmalloc
> allocation by a scope API.
> 
> These workarounds do not serve the purpose of a better reclaim recursion
> documentation and reduction of explicit GFP_NO{FS,IO} usege so let's
> just provide them with the semantic they are asking for without a need
> for workarounds.
> 
> Add support for GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO to vmalloc directly. All internal
> allocations already comply with the given gfp_mask. The only current
> exception is vmap_pages_range which maps kernel page tables. Infer the
> proper scope API based on the given gfp mask.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>

> ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index d2a00ad4e1dd..17ca7001de1f 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -2926,6 +2926,8 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  	unsigned long array_size;
>  	unsigned int nr_small_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  	unsigned int page_order;
> +	unsigned int flags;
> +	int ret;
>  
>  	array_size = (unsigned long)nr_small_pages * sizeof(struct page *);
>  	gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOWARN;
> @@ -2967,8 +2969,24 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  		goto fail;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (vmap_pages_range(addr, addr + size, prot, area->pages,
> -			page_shift) < 0) {
> +	/*
> +	 * page tables allocations ignore external gfp mask, enforce it
> +	 * by the scope API
> +	 */
> +	if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS | __GFP_IO)) == __GFP_IO)
> +		flags = memalloc_nofs_save();
> +	else if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS | __GFP_IO)) == 0)
> +		flags = memalloc_noio_save();
> +
> +	ret = vmap_pages_range(addr, addr + size, prot, area->pages,
> +			page_shift);
> +
> +	if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS | __GFP_IO)) == __GFP_IO)
> +		memalloc_nofs_restore(flags);
> +	else if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS | __GFP_IO)) == 0)
> +		memalloc_noio_restore(flags);
> +
> +	if (ret < 0) {
>  		warn_alloc(orig_gfp_mask, NULL,
>  			"vmalloc error: size %lu, failed to map pages",
>  			area->nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE);
>