Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm: cma: introduce cma_release_nowait()

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Mar 25 2021 - 05:46:16 EST


On Wed 24-03-21 17:28:28, Mike Kravetz wrote:
[...]
> phys_addr_t cma_get_base(const struct cma *cma)
> {
> return PFN_PHYS(cma->base_pfn);
> @@ -146,6 +155,10 @@ static int __init cma_init_reserved_areas(void)
> for (i = 0; i < cma_area_count; i++)
> cma_activate_area(&cma_areas[i]);
>
> + cma_release_wq = create_workqueue("cma_release");

Considering the workqueue is used to free up memory it should likely be
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM to prevent from long stalls when WQs are overloaded.

I cannot judge the CMA parts from a very quick glance this looks
reasonably.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs