On Thu 19-12-24 08:27:06, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 19-12-24 08:08:44, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > All that being said, the message I wanted to get through is that atomic
> > (NOWAIT) charges could be trully reentrant if the stock local lock uses
> > trylock. We do not need a dedicated gfp flag for that now.
>
> And I want to add. Not only we can achieve that, I also think this is
> desirable because for !RT this will be no functional change and for RT
> it makes more sense to simply do deterministic (albeit more costly
> page_counter update) than spin over a lock to use the batch (or learn
> the batch cannot be used).
So effectively this on top of yours
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index f168d223375f..29a831f6109c 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1768,7 +1768,7 @@ static bool consume_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages,
return ret;
if (!local_trylock_irqsave(&memcg_stock.stock_lock, flags)) {
- if (gfp_mask & __GFP_TRYLOCK)
+ if (!gfpflags_allow_blockingk(gfp_mask))
return ret;
local_lock_irqsave(&memcg_stock.stock_lock, flags);
}
@@ -2211,6 +2211,9 @@ int try_charge_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
if (consume_stock(memcg, nr_pages, gfp_mask))
return 0;
+ if (!gfpflags_allow_blockingk(gfp_mask))
+ batch = nr_pages;
+
if (!do_memsw_account() ||
page_counter_try_charge(&memcg->memsw, batch, &counter)) {
if (page_counter_try_charge(&memcg->memory, batch, &counter))
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
