Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Introduce GFP_PANIC for early-boot allocations

[Pekka Enberg]

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 11:29 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> 
> > From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch introduces a GFP_PANIC flag that can be used as an annotation
> > that an early-boot call to kmalloc() or alloc_pages() is expected to
> > never fail.
> 
> I think the early-boot requirement needs to be dropped. Make this safe to
> be used at anytime.

OK, here's an updated patch description:

Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Introduce GFP_PANIC
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch introduces a GFP_PANIC flag that can be used as an annotation
that a kmalloc() or alloc_pages() call is expected to never fail which is
useful for early-boot code, for example.

To save one GFP flag bit, use a combination of __GFP_NOFAIL and
__GFP_NOREPEAT to make sure we always end up in the "nopage" path of the
page allocator if an allocation fails.

[ gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx: initial version of the patch ]
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Andrew, this one is rebased on top of -mm.

 include/linux/gfp.h |    1 +
 mm/page_alloc.c     |   12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index c7429b8..2e76e7b 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 #define GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE	(__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | \
 				 __GFP_HARDWALL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | \
 				 __GFP_MOVABLE)
+#define GFP_PANIC	(__GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_NORETRY)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 #define GFP_THISNODE	(__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index be0ed90..eb8d953 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1516,8 +1516,11 @@ static inline int
 should_alloc_retry(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 				unsigned long pages_reclaimed)
 {
-	/* Do not loop if specifically requested */
-	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)
+	/*
+	 * Do not loop if specifically requested. Note: GFP_PANIC sets both
+	 * flags.
+	 */
+	if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
 		return 0;
 
 	/*
@@ -1813,6 +1816,11 @@ rebalance:
 	}
 
 nopage:
+	if (unlikely((gfp_mask & GFP_PANIC) == GFP_PANIC)) {
+		show_mem();
+		panic("Out of memory: %s order: %d, gfp_mask:0x%x\n",
+			p->comm, order, gfp_mask);
+	}
 	if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) && printk_ratelimit()) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: page allocation failure."
 			" order:%d, mode:0x%x\n",
-- 
1.5.6.3


 



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