On Wed, 24 Jul 2024, Barry Song wrote:\n
From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>
Non-blocking allocation with __GFP_NOFAIL is not supported and may
still result in NULL pointers (if we don't return NULL, we result
in busy-loop within non-sleepable contexts):
static inline struct page *
__alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
struct alloc_context *ac)
{
...
/*
* Make sure that __GFP_NOFAIL request doesn't leak out and make sure
* we always retry
*/
if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL) {
/*
* All existing users of the __GFP_NOFAIL are blockable, so warn
* of any new users that actually require GFP_NOWAIT
*/
if (WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(!can_direct_reclaim, gfp_mask))
goto fail;
...
}
...
fail:
warn_alloc(gfp_mask, ac->nodemask,
"page allocation failure: order:%u", order);
got_pg:
return page;
}
Highlight this in the documentation of __GFP_NOFAIL so that non-mm
subsystems can reject any illegal usage of __GFP_NOFAIL with
GFP_ATOMIC, GFP_NOWAIT, etc.
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
