Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] mm: warn about illegal __GFP_NOFAIL usage in a more appropriate location and manner

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On 30.08.24 22:28, Barry Song wrote:
From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>

Three points for this change:

1. We should consolidate all warnings in one place. Currently, the
    order > 1 warning is in the hotpath, while others are in less
    likely scenarios. Moving all warnings to the slowpath will reduce
    the overhead for order > 1 and increase the visibility of other
    warnings.

2. We currently have two warnings for order: one for order > 1 in
    the hotpath and another for order > costly_order in the laziest
    path. I suggest standardizing on order > 1 since it’s been in
    use for a long time.

3. We don't need to check for __GFP_NOWARN in this case. __GFP_NOWARN
    is meant to suppress allocation failure reports, but here we're
    dealing with bug detection, not allocation failures. So replace
    WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP by WARN_ON_ONCE.

Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>
---
  mm/page_alloc.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c81ee5662cc7..e790b4227322 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3033,12 +3033,6 @@ struct page *rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
  {
  	struct page *page;
- /*
-	 * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
-	 * allocate greater than order-1 page units with __GFP_NOFAIL.
-	 */
-	WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_flags & __GFP_NOFAIL) && (order > 1));
-
  	if (likely(pcp_allowed_order(order))) {
  		page = rmqueue_pcplist(preferred_zone, zone, order,
  				       migratetype, alloc_flags);
@@ -4175,6 +4169,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
  {
  	bool can_direct_reclaim = gfp_mask & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM;
  	bool can_compact = gfp_compaction_allowed(gfp_mask);
+	bool nofail = gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL;
  	const bool costly_order = order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER;
  	struct page *page = NULL;
  	unsigned int alloc_flags;
@@ -4187,6 +4182,25 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
  	unsigned int zonelist_iter_cookie;
  	int reserve_flags;
+ if (unlikely(nofail)) {
+		/*
+		 * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
+		 * allocate greater than order-1 page units with __GFP_NOFAIL.
+		 */

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

Should we also clarify that in the docs? Currently we have "Using this flag for costly allocations is _highly_ discouraged."

We'd likely want to say something like "Allocating pages from the buddy with __GFP_NOFAIL and order > 1 is not supported."

--
Cheers,

David / dhildenb





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