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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>2016-06-24 14:49:37 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-06-24 17:23:52 -0700
commite838a45f9392a5bd2be1cd3ab0b16ae85857461c (patch)
tree0677d7bbd5670d003be27ba48ce8e135bbee5b94 /mm
parent9b75a867cc9ddbafcaf35029358ac500f2635ff3 (diff)
mm, sl[au]b: add __GFP_ATOMIC to the GFP reclaim mask
Commit d0164adc89f6 ("mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd") modified __GFP_WAIT to explicitly identify the difference between atomic callers and those that were unwilling to sleep. Later the definition was removed entirely. The GFP_RECLAIM_MASK is the set of flags that affect watermark checking and reclaim behaviour but __GFP_ATOMIC was never added. Without it, atomic users of the slab allocator strip the __GFP_ATOMIC flag and cannot access the page allocator atomic reserves. This patch addresses the problem. The user-visible impact depends on the workload but potentially atomic allocations unnecessarily fail without this path. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160610093832.GK2527@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Reported-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.4+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/internal.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index a37e5b6f9d25..2524ec880e24 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
*/
#define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
- __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
+ __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|\
+ __GFP_ATOMIC)
/* The GFP flags allowed during early boot */
#define GFP_BOOT_MASK (__GFP_BITS_MASK & ~(__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS))