[PATCH 11/15] mm: trigger page reclaim in alloc_contig_range() tostabilize watermarks

[Marek Szyprowski]

alloc_contig_range() performs memory allocation so it also should keep
track on keeping the correct level of memory watermarks. This commit adds
a call to *_slowpath style reclaim to grab enough pages to make sure that
the final collection of contiguous pages from freelists will not starve
the system.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c |   47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 983ccba..371a79f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5632,6 +5632,46 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 	return ret > 0 ? 0 : ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Trigger memory pressure bump to reclaim some pages in order to be able to
+ * allocate 'count' pages in single page units. Does similar work as
+ *__alloc_pages_slowpath() function.
+ */
+static int __reclaim_pages(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, int count)
+{
+	enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
+	struct zonelist *zonelist = node_zonelist(0, gfp_mask);
+	int did_some_progress = 0;
+	int order = 1;
+	unsigned long watermark;
+
+	/*
+	 * Increase level of watermarks to force kswapd do his job
+	 * to stabilize at new watermark level.
+	 */
+	min_free_kbytes += count * PAGE_SIZE / 1024;
+	setup_per_zone_wmarks();
+
+	/* Obey watermarks as if the page was being allocated */
+	watermark = low_wmark_pages(zone) + count;
+	while (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, 0, watermark, 0, 0)) {
+		wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, zone_idx(zone));
+
+		did_some_progress = __perform_reclaim(gfp_mask, order, zonelist,
+						      NULL);
+		if (!did_some_progress) {
+			/* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */
+			out_of_memory(zonelist, gfp_mask, order, NULL);
+		}
+	}
+
+	/* Restore original watermark levels. */
+	min_free_kbytes -= count * PAGE_SIZE / 1024;
+	setup_per_zone_wmarks();
+
+	return count;
+}
+
 /**
  * alloc_contig_range() -- tries to allocate given range of pages
  * @start:	start PFN to allocate
@@ -5730,6 +5770,13 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 		goto done;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Reclaim enough pages to make sure that contiguous allocation
+	 * will not starve the system.
+	 */
+	__reclaim_pages(zone, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, end-start);
+
+	/* Grab isolated pages from freelists. */
 	outer_end = isolate_freepages_range(outer_start, end);
 	if (!outer_end) {
 		ret = -EBUSY;
-- 
1.7.1.569.g6f426

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