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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-08 17:52:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-08 17:52:23 -0700
commitf6f7a6369203fa3e07efb7f35cfd81efe9f25b07 (patch)
tree97bec9ddd999040822acf314647eaf4208213589 /include/linux/gfp.h
parent839fe9156fbe89c3157aa6146d22090f8cffddd8 (diff)
parentdf69f52d990bd85159727bd26e819d3a6e49c666 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: "Almost all of the rest of MM. There was an unusually large amount of MM material this time" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (141 commits) zpool: remove no-op module init/exit mm: zbud: constify the zbud_ops mm: zpool: constify the zpool_ops mm: swap: zswap: maybe_preload & refactoring zram: unify error reporting zsmalloc: remove null check from destroy_handle_cache() zsmalloc: do not take class lock in zs_shrinker_count() zsmalloc: use class->pages_per_zspage zsmalloc: consider ZS_ALMOST_FULL as migrate source zsmalloc: partial page ordering within a fullness_list zsmalloc: use shrinker to trigger auto-compaction zsmalloc: account the number of compacted pages zsmalloc/zram: introduce zs_pool_stats api zsmalloc: cosmetic compaction code adjustments zsmalloc: introduce zs_can_compact() function zsmalloc: always keep per-class stats zsmalloc: drop unused variable `nr_to_migrate' mm/memblock.c: fix comment in __next_mem_range() mm/page_alloc.c: fix type information of memoryless node memory-hotplug: fix comments in zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_spanned_pages_in_node() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/gfp.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/gfp.h31
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index ad35f300b9a4..f92cbd2f4450 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -63,7 +63,10 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
* but it is definitely preferable to use the flag rather than opencode endless
* loop around allocator.
*
- * __GFP_NORETRY: The VM implementation must not retry indefinitely.
+ * __GFP_NORETRY: The VM implementation must not retry indefinitely and will
+ * return NULL when direct reclaim and memory compaction have failed to allow
+ * the allocation to succeed. The OOM killer is not called with the current
+ * implementation.
*
* __GFP_MOVABLE: Flag that this page will be movable by the page migration
* mechanism or reclaimed
@@ -300,22 +303,31 @@ __alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
return __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, NULL);
}
-static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask,
- unsigned int order)
+/*
+ * Allocate pages, preferring the node given as nid. The node must be valid and
+ * online. For more general interface, see alloc_pages_node().
+ */
+static inline struct page *
+__alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
{
- /* Unknown node is current node */
- if (nid < 0)
- nid = numa_node_id();
+ VM_BUG_ON(nid < 0 || nid >= MAX_NUMNODES);
+ VM_WARN_ON(!node_online(nid));
return __alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order, node_zonelist(nid, gfp_mask));
}
-static inline struct page *alloc_pages_exact_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask,
+/*
+ * Allocate pages, preferring the node given as nid. When nid == NUMA_NO_NODE,
+ * prefer the current CPU's closest node. Otherwise node must be valid and
+ * online.
+ */
+static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned int order)
{
- VM_BUG_ON(nid < 0 || nid >= MAX_NUMNODES || !node_online(nid));
+ if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
+ nid = numa_mem_id();
- return __alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order, node_zonelist(nid, gfp_mask));
+ return __alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp_mask, order);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
@@ -354,7 +366,6 @@ extern unsigned long get_zeroed_page(gfp_t gfp_mask);
void *alloc_pages_exact(size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask);
void free_pages_exact(void *virt, size_t size);
-/* This is different from alloc_pages_exact_node !!! */
void * __meminit alloc_pages_exact_nid(int nid, size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask);
#define __get_free_page(gfp_mask) \