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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-12-10 10:51:16 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-12-10 11:03:05 -0800 |
| commit | caf491916b1c1e939a2c7575efb7a77f11fc9bdf (patch) | |
| tree | f6e62f0a4427c2ba860ad8cd40a31e50be29de15 /include/linux/gfp.h | |
| parent | 31f8d42d44b48ba72b586ca03e810cbbd21ea16b (diff) | |
Revert "revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""" and associated damage
This reverts commits a50915394f1fc02c2861d3b7ce7014788aa5066e and
d7c3b937bdf45f0b844400b7bf6fd3ed50bac604.
This is a revert of a revert of a revert. In addition, it reverts the
even older i915 change to stop using the __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag due to the
original commits in linux-next.
It turns out that the original patch really was bogus, and that the
original revert was the correct thing to do after all. We thought we
had fixed the problem, and then reverted the revert, but the problem
really is fundamental: waking up kswapd simply isn't the right thing to
do, and direct reclaim sometimes simply _is_ the right thing to do.
When certain allocations fail, we simply should try some direct reclaim,
and if that fails, fail the allocation. That's the right thing to do
for THP allocations, which can easily fail, and the GPU allocations want
to do that too.
So starting kswapd is sometimes simply wrong, and removing the flag that
said "don't start kswapd" was a mistake. Let's hope we never revisit
this mistake again - and certainly not this many times ;)
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/gfp.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/gfp.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index 76e1aa206f57..d0a79678f169 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -30,9 +30,10 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #define ___GFP_HARDWALL 0x20000u #define ___GFP_THISNODE 0x40000u #define ___GFP_RECLAIMABLE 0x80000u -#define ___GFP_NOTRACK 0x100000u -#define ___GFP_OTHER_NODE 0x200000u -#define ___GFP_WRITE 0x400000u +#define ___GFP_NOTRACK 0x200000u +#define ___GFP_NO_KSWAPD 0x400000u +#define ___GFP_OTHER_NODE 0x800000u +#define ___GFP_WRITE 0x1000000u /* * GFP bitmasks.. @@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #define __GFP_RECLAIMABLE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_RECLAIMABLE) /* Page is reclaimable */ #define __GFP_NOTRACK ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOTRACK) /* Don't track with kmemcheck */ +#define __GFP_NO_KSWAPD ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NO_KSWAPD) #define __GFP_OTHER_NODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_OTHER_NODE) /* On behalf of other node */ #define __GFP_WRITE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_WRITE) /* Allocator intends to dirty page */ @@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; */ #define __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE (__GFP_NOTRACK) -#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT 23 /* Room for N __GFP_FOO bits */ +#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT 25 /* Room for N __GFP_FOO bits */ #define __GFP_BITS_MASK ((__force gfp_t)((1 << __GFP_BITS_SHIFT) - 1)) /* This equals 0, but use constants in case they ever change */ @@ -114,7 +116,8 @@ struct vm_area_struct; __GFP_MOVABLE) #define GFP_IOFS (__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS) #define GFP_TRANSHUGE (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \ - __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN) + __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \ + __GFP_NO_KSWAPD) #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA #define GFP_THISNODE (__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY) |