The patch titled Subject: mm: huge_memory: use GFP_TRANSHUGE when charging huge pages has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-huge_memory-use-gfp_transhuge-when-charging-huge-pages.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-huge_memory-use-gfp_transhuge-when-charging-huge-pages.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-huge_memory-use-gfp_transhuge-when-charging-huge-pages.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: huge_memory: use GFP_TRANSHUGE when charging huge pages Transparent huge page charges prefer falling back to regular pages rather than spending a lot of time in direct reclaim. Desired reclaim behavior is usually declared in the gfp mask, but THP charges use GFP_KERNEL and then rely on the fact that OOM is disabled for THP charges, and that OOM-disabled charges don't retry reclaim. Needless to say, this is anything but obvious and quite error prone. Convert THP charges to use GFP_TRANSHUGE instead, which implies __GFP_NORETRY, to indicate the low-latency requirement. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/huge_memory.c~mm-huge_memory-use-gfp_transhuge-when-charging-huge-pages mm/huge_memory.c --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-huge_memory-use-gfp_transhuge-when-charging-huge-pages +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ int do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct mm count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK); return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK; } - if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_charge_anon(page, mm, GFP_KERNEL))) { + if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_charge_anon(page, mm, GFP_TRANSHUGE))) { put_page(page); count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK); return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK; @@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ alloc: goto out; } - if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_charge_anon(new_page, mm, GFP_KERNEL))) { + if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_charge_anon(new_page, mm, GFP_TRANSHUGE))) { put_page(new_page); if (page) { split_huge_page(page); @@ -2399,7 +2399,7 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm if (!new_page) return; - if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_charge_anon(new_page, mm, GFP_KERNEL))) + if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_charge_anon(new_page, mm, GFP_TRANSHUGE))) return; /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are vmalloc-use-rcu-list-iterator-to-reduce-vmap_area_lock-contention.patch memcg-cleanup-memcg_cache_params-refcnt-usage.patch memcg-destroy-kmem-caches-when-last-slab-is-freed.patch memcg-mark-caches-that-belong-to-offline-memcgs-as-dead.patch slub-dont-fail-kmem_cache_shrink-if-slab-placement-optimization-fails.patch slub-make-slab_free-non-preemptable.patch memcg-wait-for-kfrees-to-finish-before-destroying-cache.patch slub-make-dead-memcg-caches-discard-free-slabs-immediately.patch slab-do-not-keep-free-objects-slabs-on-dead-memcg-caches.patch mm-memcontrol-fold-mem_cgroup_do_charge.patch mm-memcontrol-rearrange-charging-fast-path.patch mm-memcontrol-reclaim-at-least-once-for-__gfp_noretry.patch mm-huge_memory-use-gfp_transhuge-when-charging-huge-pages.patch mm-memcontrol-retry-reclaim-for-oom-disabled-and-__gfp_nofail-charges.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-explicit-oom-parameter-in-charge-path.patch mm-memcontrol-simplify-move-precharge-function.patch mm-memcontrol-catch-root-bypass-in-move-precharge.patch mm-memcontrol-use-root_mem_cgroup-res_counter.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-ordering-between-pc-mem_cgroup-and-pagecgroupused.patch mm-memcontrol-do-not-acquire-page_cgroup-lock-for-kmem-pages.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api.patch memcg-deprecate-memoryforce_empty-knob.patch memcg-deprecate-memoryforce_empty-knob-fix.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html