On Mon 26-06-17 14:00:27, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 06/23/2017 10:53 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Now that __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL has a reasonable semantic regardless of the
> > request size we can drop the hackish implementation for !costly orders.
> > __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL retries as long as the reclaim makes a forward
> > progress and backs of when we are out of memory for the requested size.
> > Therefore we do not need to enforce__GFP_NORETRY for !costly orders just
> > to silent the oom killer anymore.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The flag is now supported, but not for the embedded page table
> allocations, so OOM is still theoretically possible, right?
> That should be rare, though. Worth mentioning anywhere?
Yes that is true. Not sure I would make it more complicated than
necessary. I can add a note in there if you insist but to me it sounds
like something that will only confuse people.
> Other than that.
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Thanks!
> > ---
> > mm/util.c | 14 ++++----------
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
> > index 6520f2d4a226..ee250e2cde34 100644
> > --- a/mm/util.c
> > +++ b/mm/util.c
> > @@ -339,9 +339,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap);
> > * Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back
> > * to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory.
> > *
> > - * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
> > - * is supported only for large (>32kB) allocations, and it should be used only if
> > - * kmalloc is preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks.
> > + * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported.
> > + * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is supported, and it should be used only if kmalloc is
> > + * preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks.
> > *
> > * Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted with mm people.
> > */
> > @@ -366,13 +366,7 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
> > if (size > PAGE_SIZE) {
> > kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN;
> >
> > - /*
> > - * We have to override __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL by __GFP_NORETRY for !costly
> > - * requests because there is no other way to tell the allocator
> > - * that we want to fail rather than retry endlessly.
> > - */
> > - if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) ||
> > - (size <= PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
> > + if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL))
> > kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY;
> > }
> >
> >
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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