diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt index c41331398752..7a065ac4a9d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ requirements you pass the flag GFP_DMA to kmalloc. Unfortunately the memory available for ISA DMA is scarce so unless you allocate the memory during boot-up it's a good idea to also pass -__GFP_REPEAT and __GFP_NOWARN to make the allocator try a bit harder. +__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL and __GFP_NOWARN to make the allocator try a bit harder. (This scarcity also means that you should allocate the buffer as early as possible and not release it until the driver is unloaded.) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h index 20b1485ff1e8..e2329db9d6f4 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static inline pgd_t *radix__pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm) return (pgd_t *)__get_free_page(pgtable_gfp_flags(mm, PGALLOC_GFP)); #else struct page *page; - page = alloc_pages(pgtable_gfp_flags(mm, PGALLOC_GFP | __GFP_REPEAT), + page = alloc_pages(pgtable_gfp_flags(mm, PGALLOC_GFP | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL), 4); if (!page) return NULL; diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c index 710e491206ed..8cb0190e2a73 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ int kvmppc_allocate_hpt(struct kvm_hpt_info *info, u32 order) } if (!hpt) - hpt = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_REPEAT + hpt = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL |__GFP_NOWARN, order - PAGE_SHIFT); if (!hpt) diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c index e4b4e790bf89..fa466ce45bc9 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static struct mdesc_handle *mdesc_kmalloc(unsigned int mdesc_size) handle_size = (sizeof(struct mdesc_handle) - sizeof(struct mdesc_hdr) + mdesc_size); - base = kmalloc(handle_size + 15, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT); + base = kmalloc(handle_size + 15, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL); if (!base) return NULL; diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/wbsd.c b/drivers/mmc/host/wbsd.c index e15a9733fcfd..9668616faf16 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/host/wbsd.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/wbsd.c @@ -1386,7 +1386,7 @@ static void wbsd_request_dma(struct wbsd_host *host, int dma) * order for ISA to be able to DMA to it. */ host->dma_buffer = kmalloc(WBSD_DMA_SIZE, - GFP_NOIO | GFP_DMA | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_NOWARN); + GFP_NOIO | GFP_DMA | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL | __GFP_NOWARN); if (!host->dma_buffer) goto free; diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c b/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c index 65f5a794f26d..98749fa817da 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c +++ b/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ vmcp_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buff, size_t count, } if (!session->response) session->response = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL - | __GFP_REPEAT | GFP_DMA, + | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL | GFP_DMA, get_order(session->bufsize)); if (!session->response) { mutex_unlock(&session->mutex); diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c index f1b3a46bdcaf..1bdc10651bcd 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ int transport_alloc_session_tags(struct se_session *se_sess, int rc; se_sess->sess_cmd_map = kzalloc(tag_num * tag_size, - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT); + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL); if (!se_sess->sess_cmd_map) { se_sess->sess_cmd_map = vzalloc(tag_num * tag_size); if (!se_sess->sess_cmd_map) { diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c index e3d7ea1288c6..06d044862e58 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c @@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ static int vhost_net_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *f) struct sk_buff **queue; int i; - n = kvmalloc(sizeof *n, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT); + n = kvmalloc(sizeof *n, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL); if (!n) return -ENOMEM; vqs = kmalloc(VHOST_NET_VQ_MAX * sizeof(*vqs), GFP_KERNEL); diff --git a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c index fd6c8b66f06f..ff02a942c4d5 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c @@ -1404,7 +1404,7 @@ static int vhost_scsi_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *f) struct vhost_virtqueue **vqs; int r = -ENOMEM, i; - vs = kzalloc(sizeof(*vs), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT); + vs = kzalloc(sizeof(*vs), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL); if (!vs) { vs = vzalloc(sizeof(*vs)); if (!vs) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c index 3f63e03de8e8..c9de9c41aa97 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ static int vhost_vsock_dev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) /* This struct is large and allocation could fail, fall back to vmalloc * if there is no other way. */ - vsock = kvmalloc(sizeof(*vsock), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT); + vsock = kvmalloc(sizeof(*vsock), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL); if (!vsock) return -ENOMEM; diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index 4c6656f1fee7..bcfb9f7c46f5 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #define ___GFP_FS 0x80u #define ___GFP_COLD 0x100u #define ___GFP_NOWARN 0x200u -#define ___GFP_REPEAT 0x400u +#define ___GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL 0x400u #define ___GFP_NOFAIL 0x800u #define ___GFP_NORETRY 0x1000u #define ___GFP_MEMALLOC 0x2000u @@ -136,26 +136,56 @@ struct vm_area_struct; * * __GFP_RECLAIM is shorthand to allow/forbid both direct and kswapd reclaim. * - * __GFP_REPEAT: Try hard to allocate the memory, but the allocation attempt - * _might_ fail. This depends upon the particular VM implementation. + * The default allocator behavior depends on the request size. We have a concept + * of so called costly allocations (with order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER). + * !costly allocations are too essential to fail so they are implicitly + * non-failing by default (with some exceptions like OOM victims might fail so + * the caller still has to check for failures) while costly requests try to be + * not disruptive and back off even without invoking the OOM killer. + * The following three modifiers might be used to override some of these + * implicit rules + * + * __GFP_NORETRY: The VM implementation will try only very lightweight + * memory direct reclaim to get some memory under memory pressure (thus + * it can sleep). It will avoid disruptive actions like OOM killer. The + * caller must handle the failure which is quite likely to happen under + * heavy memory pressure. The flag is suitable when failure can easily be + * handled at small cost, such as reduced throughput + * + * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL: The VM implementation will retry memory reclaim + * procedures that have previously failed if there is some indication + * that progress has been made else where. It can wait for other + * tasks to attempt high level approaches to freeing memory such as + * compaction (which removes fragmentation) and page-out. + * There is still a definite limit to the number of retries, but it is + * a larger limit than with __GFP_NORETRY. + * Allocations with this flag may fail, but only when there is + * genuinely little unused memory. While these allocations do not + * directly trigger the OOM killer, their failure indicates that + * the system is likely to need to use the OOM killer soon. The + * caller must handle failure, but can reasonably do so by failing + * a higher-level request, or completing it only in a much less + * efficient manner. + * If the allocation does fail, and the caller is in a position to + * free some non-essential memory, doing so could benefit the system + * as a whole. * * __GFP_NOFAIL: The VM implementation _must_ retry infinitely: the caller - * cannot handle allocation failures. New users should be evaluated carefully - * (and the flag should be used only when there is no reasonable failure - * policy) but it is definitely preferable to use the flag rather than - * opencode endless loop around allocator. - * - * __GFP_NORETRY: The VM implementation must not retry indefinitely and will - * return NULL when direct reclaim and memory compaction have failed to allow - * the allocation to succeed. The OOM killer is not called with the current - * implementation. + * cannot handle allocation failures. The allocation could block + * indefinitely but will never return with failure. Testing for + * failure is pointless. + * New users should be evaluated carefully (and the flag should be + * used only when there is no reasonable failure policy) but it is + * definitely preferable to use the flag rather than opencode endless + * loop around allocator. + * Using this flag for costly allocations is _highly_ discouraged. */ #define __GFP_IO ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_IO) #define __GFP_FS ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_FS) #define __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) /* Caller can reclaim */ #define __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM) /* kswapd can wake */ #define __GFP_RECLAIM ((__force gfp_t)(___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM|___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)) -#define __GFP_REPEAT ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_REPEAT) +#define __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) #define __GFP_NOFAIL ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOFAIL) #define __GFP_NORETRY ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NORETRY) diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index 04a7f7993e67..41473df6dfb0 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -471,7 +471,8 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_large(size_t size, gfp_t flags) * * %__GFP_NOWARN - If allocation fails, don't issue any warnings. * - * %__GFP_REPEAT - If allocation fails initially, try once more before failing. + * %__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL - Try really hard to succeed the allocation but fail + * eventually. * * There are other flags available as well, but these are not intended * for general use, and so are not documented here. For a full list of diff --git a/include/trace/events/mmflags.h b/include/trace/events/mmflags.h index 10e3663a75a6..8e50d01c645f 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/mmflags.h +++ b/include/trace/events/mmflags.h @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ {(unsigned long)__GFP_FS, "__GFP_FS"}, \ {(unsigned long)__GFP_COLD, "__GFP_COLD"}, \ {(unsigned long)__GFP_NOWARN, "__GFP_NOWARN"}, \ - {(unsigned long)__GFP_REPEAT, "__GFP_REPEAT"}, \ + {(unsigned long)__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, "__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL"}, \ {(unsigned long)__GFP_NOFAIL, "__GFP_NOFAIL"}, \ {(unsigned long)__GFP_NORETRY, "__GFP_NORETRY"}, \ {(unsigned long)__GFP_COMP, "__GFP_COMP"}, \ diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 1e516520433d..bc48ee783dd9 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ static struct page *alloc_fresh_huge_page_node(struct hstate *h, int nid) page = __alloc_pages_node(nid, htlb_alloc_mask(h)|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_THISNODE| - __GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOWARN, + __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOWARN, huge_page_order(h)); if (page) { prep_new_huge_page(h, page, nid); @@ -1525,7 +1525,7 @@ static struct page *__hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page(struct hstate *h, { int order = huge_page_order(h); - gfp_mask |= __GFP_COMP|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOWARN; + gfp_mask |= __GFP_COMP|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOWARN; if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE) nid = numa_mem_id(); return __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_mask, order, nid, nmask); diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h index 0e4f558412fb..24d88f084705 100644 --- a/mm/internal.h +++ b/mm/internal.h @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ * hints such as HIGHMEM usage. */ #define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\ - __GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL|\ + __GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOFAIL|\ __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|\ __GFP_ATOMIC) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 64b7d82a9b1a..6d30e914afb6 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3284,6 +3284,14 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, /* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs */ if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) goto out; + /* + * We have already exhausted all our reclaim opportunities without any + * success so it is time to admit defeat. We will skip the OOM killer + * because it is very likely that the caller has a more reasonable + * fallback than shooting a random task. + */ + if (gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) + goto out; /* The OOM killer does not needlessly kill tasks for lowmem */ if (ac->high_zoneidx < ZONE_NORMAL) goto out; @@ -3413,7 +3421,7 @@ should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags, } /* - * !costly requests are much more important than __GFP_REPEAT + * !costly requests are much more important than __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL * costly ones because they are de facto nofail and invoke OOM * killer to move on while costly can fail and users are ready * to cope with that. 1/4 retries is rather arbitrary but we @@ -3920,9 +3928,9 @@ retry: /* * Do not retry costly high order allocations unless they are - * __GFP_REPEAT + * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL */ - if (costly_order && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT)) + if (costly_order && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL)) goto nopage; if (should_reclaim_retry(gfp_mask, order, ac, alloc_flags, diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c index a56c3989f773..c50b1a14d55e 100644 --- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c +++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c @@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node) if (node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY)) page = alloc_pages_node( - node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_REPEAT, + node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, get_order(size)); else page = alloc_pages( - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_REPEAT, + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, get_order(size)); if (page) return page_address(page); diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 26be6407abd7..6520f2d4a226 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap); * Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back * to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory. * - * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_REPEAT + * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL * is supported only for large (>32kB) allocations, and it should be used only if * kmalloc is preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks. * @@ -367,11 +367,11 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN; /* - * We have to override __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_NORETRY for !costly + * We have to override __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL by __GFP_NORETRY for !costly * requests because there is no other way to tell the allocator * that we want to fail rather than retry endlessly. */ - if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_REPEAT) || + if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) || (size <= PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)) kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY; } diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 6016ab079e2b..8698c1c86c4d 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ fail: * allocator with @gfp_mask flags. Map them into contiguous * kernel virtual space, using a pagetable protection of @prot. * - * Reclaim modifiers in @gfp_mask - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_REPEAT + * Reclaim modifiers in @gfp_mask - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL * and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported * * Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index e9210f825219..a1af041930a6 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2506,18 +2506,18 @@ static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat, return false; /* Consider stopping depending on scan and reclaim activity */ - if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT) { + if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) { /* - * For __GFP_REPEAT allocations, stop reclaiming if the + * For __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations, stop reclaiming if the * full LRU list has been scanned and we are still failing * to reclaim pages. This full LRU scan is potentially - * expensive but a __GFP_REPEAT caller really wants to succeed + * expensive but a __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL caller really wants to succeed */ if (!nr_reclaimed && !nr_scanned) return false; } else { /* - * For non-__GFP_REPEAT allocations which can presumably + * For non-__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations which can presumably * fail without consequence, stop if we failed to reclaim * any pages from the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX number of * pages that were scanned. This will return to the diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 02440518dd69..8515f8fe0460 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -7384,7 +7384,7 @@ static int netif_alloc_rx_queues(struct net_device *dev) BUG_ON(count < 1); - rx = kvzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT); + rx = kvzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL); if (!rx) return -ENOMEM; @@ -7424,7 +7424,7 @@ static int netif_alloc_netdev_queues(struct net_device *dev) if (count < 1 || count > 0xffff) return -EINVAL; - tx = kvzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT); + tx = kvzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL); if (!tx) return -ENOMEM; @@ -7965,7 +7965,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name, /* ensure 32-byte alignment of whole construct */ alloc_size += NETDEV_ALIGN - 1; - p = kvzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT); + p = kvzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL); if (!p) return NULL; diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index 8b11341ed69a..f990eb8b30a9 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -4747,7 +4747,7 @@ struct sk_buff *alloc_skb_with_frags(unsigned long header_len, gfp_head = gfp_mask; if (gfp_head & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) - gfp_head |= __GFP_REPEAT; + gfp_head |= __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL; *errcode = -ENOBUFS; skb = alloc_skb(header_len, gfp_head); diff --git a/net/sched/sch_fq.c b/net/sched/sch_fq.c index 147fde73a0f5..263d16e3219e 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_fq.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_fq.c @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ static int fq_resize(struct Qdisc *sch, u32 log) return 0; /* If XPS was setup, we can allocate memory on right NUMA node */ - array = kvmalloc_node(sizeof(struct rb_root) << log, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT, + array = kvmalloc_node(sizeof(struct rb_root) << log, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, netdev_queue_numa_node_read(sch->dev_queue)); if (!array) return -ENOMEM; diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c index 0a8a1c45af87..a1497c516d85 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c @@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ static const struct { { "__GFP_FS", "F" }, { "__GFP_COLD", "CO" }, { "__GFP_NOWARN", "NWR" }, - { "__GFP_REPEAT", "R" }, + { "__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL", "R" }, { "__GFP_NOFAIL", "NF" }, { "__GFP_NORETRY", "NR" }, { "__GFP_COMP", "C" },