[PATCH] mm: page_alloc: remove stale CMA guard code

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Thu Aug 24 2023 - 11:39:31 EST


In the past, movable allocations could be disallowed from CMA through
PF_MEMALLOC_PIN. As CMA pages are funneled through the MOVABLE
pcplist, this required filtering that cornercase during allocations,
such that pinnable allocations wouldn't accidentally get a CMA page.

However, since 8e3560d963d2 ("mm: honor PF_MEMALLOC_PIN for all
movable pages"), PF_MEMALLOC_PIN automatically excludes
__GFP_MOVABLE. Once again, MOVABLE implies CMA is allowed.

Remove the stale filtering code. Also remove a stale comment that was
introduced as part of the filtering code, because the filtering let
order-0 pages fall through to the buddy allocator. See 1d91df85f399
("mm/page_alloc: handle a missing case for
memalloc_nocma_{save/restore} APIs") for context. The comment's been
obsolete since the introduction of the explicit ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC flag
in eb2e2b425c69 ("mm/page_alloc: explicitly record high-order atomic
allocations in alloc_flags").

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 21 ++++-----------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5e14e31567df..2e1ee11ab49a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2641,12 +2641,6 @@ struct page *rmqueue_buddy(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *zone,
do {
page = NULL;
spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
- /*
- * order-0 request can reach here when the pcplist is skipped
- * due to non-CMA allocation context. HIGHATOMIC area is
- * reserved for high-order atomic allocation, so order-0
- * request should skip it.
- */
if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC)
page = __rmqueue_smallest(zone, order, MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC);
if (!page) {
@@ -2780,17 +2774,10 @@ struct page *rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_flags & __GFP_NOFAIL) && (order > 1));

if (likely(pcp_allowed_order(order))) {
- /*
- * MIGRATE_MOVABLE pcplist could have the pages on CMA area and
- * we need to skip it when CMA area isn't allowed.
- */
- if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMA) || alloc_flags & ALLOC_CMA ||
- migratetype != MIGRATE_MOVABLE) {
- page = rmqueue_pcplist(preferred_zone, zone, order,
- migratetype, alloc_flags);
- if (likely(page))
- goto out;
- }
+ page = rmqueue_pcplist(preferred_zone, zone, order,
+ migratetype, alloc_flags);
+ if (likely(page))
+ goto out;
}

page = rmqueue_buddy(preferred_zone, zone, order, alloc_flags,
--
2.42.0