[PATCH 1/6] mm/slab: fix gfp flags of percpu allocation at boot phase

[Joonsoo Kim]

__alloc_percpu() passed GFP_KERNEL implicitly to core function of
percpu allocator. At boot phase, it's not valid gfp flag so change it.

Without this change, while implementing new feature, I found that
__alloc_percpu() calls kmalloc() which is not initialized at this time
and the system fail to boot. percpu allocator regards GFP_KERNEL as
the sign of the system fully initialized so aggressively try to make
spare room. With GFP_NOWAIT, it doesn't do that so succeed to boot.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
---
 mm/slab.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 65b5dcb..1150c8b 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1990,9 +1990,12 @@ static struct array_cache __percpu *alloc_kmem_cache_cpus(
 	int cpu;
 	size_t size;
 	struct array_cache __percpu *cpu_cache;
+	gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL;
 
 	size = sizeof(void *) * entries + sizeof(struct array_cache);
-	cpu_cache = __alloc_percpu(size, sizeof(void *));
+	if (slab_state < FULL)
+		gfp_flags = GFP_NOWAIT;
+	cpu_cache = __alloc_percpu_gfp(size, sizeof(void *), gfp_flags);
 
 	if (!cpu_cache)
 		return NULL;
-- 
1.7.9.5

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