This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage allocation to local node to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mm-thp-really-limit-transparent-hugepage-allocation-to-local-node.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5265047ac30191ea24b16503165000c225f54feb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:46:58 -0700 Subject: mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage allocation to local node From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 5265047ac30191ea24b16503165000c225f54feb upstream. Commit 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on local node") restructured alloc_hugepage_vma() with the intent of only allocating transparent hugepages locally when there was not an effective interleave mempolicy. alloc_pages_exact_node() does not limit the allocation to the single node, however, but rather prefers it. This is because __GFP_THISNODE is not set which would cause the node-local nodemask to be passed. Without it, only a nodemask that prefers the local node is passed. Fix this by passing __GFP_THISNODE and falling back to small pages when the allocation fails. Commit 9f1b868a13ac ("mm: thp: khugepaged: add policy for finding target node") suffers from a similar problem for khugepaged, which is also fixed. Fixes: 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on local node") Fixes: 9f1b868a13ac ("mm: thp: khugepaged: add policy for finding target node") Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 9 +++++++-- mm/mempolicy.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2316,8 +2316,14 @@ static struct page struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, int node) { + gfp_t flags; + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(*hpage, *hpage); + /* Only allocate from the target node */ + flags = alloc_hugepage_gfpmask(khugepaged_defrag(), __GFP_OTHER_NODE) | + __GFP_THISNODE; + /* * Before allocating the hugepage, release the mmap_sem read lock. * The allocation can take potentially a long time if it involves @@ -2326,8 +2332,7 @@ static struct page */ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - *hpage = alloc_pages_exact_node(node, alloc_hugepage_gfpmask( - khugepaged_defrag(), __GFP_OTHER_NODE), HPAGE_PMD_ORDER); + *hpage = alloc_pages_exact_node(node, flags, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER); if (unlikely(!*hpage)) { count_vm_event(THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC_FAILED); *hpage = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -1985,7 +1985,8 @@ retry_cpuset: nmask = policy_nodemask(gfp, pol); if (!nmask || node_isset(node, *nmask)) { mpol_cond_put(pol); - page = alloc_pages_exact_node(node, gfp, order); + page = alloc_pages_exact_node(node, + gfp | __GFP_THISNODE, order); goto out; } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.0/mm-hugetlb-use-pmd_page-in-follow_huge_pmd.patch queue-4.0/mm-thp-really-limit-transparent-hugepage-allocation-to-local-node.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html