[PATCH 4.0 211/220] mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage allocation to local node

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat May 02 2015 - 16:57:00 EST


4.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 5265047ac30191ea24b16503165000c225f54feb upstream.

Commit 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on local
node") restructured alloc_hugepage_vma() with the intent of only
allocating transparent hugepages locally when there was not an effective
interleave mempolicy.

alloc_pages_exact_node() does not limit the allocation to the single node,
however, but rather prefers it. This is because __GFP_THISNODE is not set
which would cause the node-local nodemask to be passed. Without it, only
a nodemask that prefers the local node is passed.

Fix this by passing __GFP_THISNODE and falling back to small pages when
the allocation fails.

Commit 9f1b868a13ac ("mm: thp: khugepaged: add policy for finding target
node") suffers from a similar problem for khugepaged, which is also fixed.

Fixes: 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on local node")
Fixes: 9f1b868a13ac ("mm: thp: khugepaged: add policy for finding target node")
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
mm/huge_memory.c | 9 +++++++--
mm/mempolicy.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2316,8 +2316,14 @@ static struct page
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
int node)
{
+ gfp_t flags;
+
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(*hpage, *hpage);

+ /* Only allocate from the target node */
+ flags = alloc_hugepage_gfpmask(khugepaged_defrag(), __GFP_OTHER_NODE) |
+ __GFP_THISNODE;
+
/*
* Before allocating the hugepage, release the mmap_sem read lock.
* The allocation can take potentially a long time if it involves
@@ -2326,8 +2332,7 @@ static struct page
*/
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);

- *hpage = alloc_pages_exact_node(node, alloc_hugepage_gfpmask(
- khugepaged_defrag(), __GFP_OTHER_NODE), HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
+ *hpage = alloc_pages_exact_node(node, flags, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
if (unlikely(!*hpage)) {
count_vm_event(THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC_FAILED);
*hpage = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1985,7 +1985,8 @@ retry_cpuset:
nmask = policy_nodemask(gfp, pol);
if (!nmask || node_isset(node, *nmask)) {
mpol_cond_put(pol);
- page = alloc_pages_exact_node(node, gfp, order);
+ page = alloc_pages_exact_node(node,
+ gfp | __GFP_THISNODE, order);
goto out;
}
}


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