>From 78618cc83e6a21b876c30a8fb3940ccc1f5b99e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:49:16 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 10/30] mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC
__GFP_MEMALLOC will allow the allocation to disregard the watermarks,
much like PF_MEMALLOC.
It allows one to pass along the memalloc state in object related allocation
flags as opposed to task related flags, such as sk->sk_allocation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/gfp.h | 3 ++-
mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 975609c..c608e26 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define __GFP_REPEAT ((__force gfp_t)0x400u) /* See above */
#define __GFP_NOFAIL ((__force gfp_t)0x800u) /* See above */
#define __GFP_NORETRY ((__force gfp_t)0x1000u)/* See above */
+#define __GFP_MEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)0x2000u)/* Use emergency reserves */
#define __GFP_COMP ((__force gfp_t)0x4000u)/* Add compound page metadata */
#define __GFP_ZERO ((__force gfp_t)0x8000u)/* Return zeroed page on success */
#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)0x10000u) /* Don't use emergency reserves */
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
/* Control page allocator reclaim behavior */
#define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
- __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
+ __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
/* Control slab gfp mask during early boot */
#define GFP_BOOT_MASK (__GFP_BITS_MASK & ~(__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS))
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 21d64f7..f7d3060 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1930,7 +1930,9 @@ int gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
if (likely(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC))) {
- if (!in_irq() && (p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
+ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_MEMALLOC)
+ alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS;
+ else if (!in_irq() && (p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS;
else if (!in_interrupt() &&
unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)))
--
1.7.1.1
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