From 4034247a0d6ab281ba3293798ce67af494d86129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 14:07:14 -0800 Subject: mm: introduce memalloc_retry_wait() Various places in the kernel - largely in filesystems - respond to a memory allocation failure by looping around and re-trying. Some of these cannot conveniently use __GFP_NOFAIL, for reasons such as: - a GFP_ATOMIC allocation, which __GFP_NOFAIL doesn't work on - a need to check for the process being signalled between failures - the possibility that other recovery actions could be performed - the allocation is quite deep in support code, and passing down an extra flag to say if __GFP_NOFAIL is wanted would be clumsy. Many of these currently use congestion_wait() which (in almost all cases) simply waits the given timeout - congestion isn't tracked for most devices. It isn't clear what the best delay is for loops, but it is clear that the various filesystems shouldn't be responsible for choosing a timeout. This patch introduces memalloc_retry_wait() with takes on that responsibility. Code that wants to retry a memory allocation can call this function passing the GFP flags that were used. It will wait however is appropriate. For now, it only considers __GFP_NORETRY and whatever gfpflags_allow_blocking() tests. If blocking is allowed without __GFP_NORETRY, then alloc_page either made some reclaim progress, or waited for a while, before failing. So there is no need for much further waiting. memalloc_retry_wait() will wait until the current jiffie ends. If this condition is not met, then alloc_page() won't have waited much if at all. In that case memalloc_retry_wait() waits about 200ms. This is the delay that most current loops uses. linux/sched/mm.h needs to be included in some files now, but linux/backing-dev.h does not. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163754371968.13692.1277530886009912421@noble.neil.brown.name Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Jaegeuk Kim Cc: Chao Yu Cc: Darrick J. Wong Cc: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4/extents.c') diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index 0ecf819bf189..5582fba36b44 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ #include #include #include -#include #include +#include #include "ext4_jbd2.h" #include "ext4_extents.h" #include "xattr.h" @@ -4407,8 +4407,7 @@ retry: err = ext4_es_remove_extent(inode, last_block, EXT_MAX_BLOCKS - last_block); if (err == -ENOMEM) { - cond_resched(); - congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50); + memalloc_retry_wait(GFP_ATOMIC); goto retry; } if (err) @@ -4416,8 +4415,7 @@ retry: retry_remove_space: err = ext4_ext_remove_space(inode, last_block, EXT_MAX_BLOCKS - 1); if (err == -ENOMEM) { - cond_resched(); - congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50); + memalloc_retry_wait(GFP_ATOMIC); goto retry_remove_space; } return err; -- cgit v1.2.3