bootmem: respect goal more likely

The old node-agnostic code tried allocating on all nodes starting from the
one with the lowest range.  alloc_bootmem_core retried without the goal if
it could not satisfy it and so the goal was only respected at all when it
happened to be on the first (lowest page numbers) node (or theoretically
if allocations failed on all nodes before to the one holding the goal).

Introduce a non-panicking helper that starts allocating from the node
holding the goal and falls back only after all thes tries failed, thus
moving the goal fallback code out of alloc_bootmem_core.

Make all other allocation functions benefit from this new helper.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

mm/bootmem.c

@@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ static void * __init alloc_bootmem_core(struct bootmem_data *bdata,
 				unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 				unsigned long goal, unsigned long limit)
 {
+	unsigned long fallback = 0;
 	unsigned long min, max, start, sidx, midx, step;
 
 	BUG_ON(!size);
@@ -443,8 +444,11 @@ static void * __init alloc_bootmem_core(struct bootmem_data *bdata,
 	midx = max - PFN_DOWN(bdata->node_boot_start);
 
 	if (bdata->hint_idx > sidx) {
-		/* Make sure we retry on failure */
-		goal = 1;
+		/*
+		 * Handle the valid case of sidx being zero and still
+		 * catch the fallback below.
+		 */
+		fallback = sidx + 1;
 		sidx = ALIGN(bdata->hint_idx, step);
 	}
 
@@ -492,10 +496,39 @@ static void * __init alloc_bootmem_core(struct bootmem_data *bdata,
 		return region;
 	}
 
+	if (fallback) {
+		sidx = ALIGN(fallback - 1, step);
+		fallback = 0;
+		goto find_block;
+	}
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static void * __init ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic(unsigned long size,
+					unsigned long align,
+					unsigned long goal,
+					unsigned long limit)
+{
+	bootmem_data_t *bdata;
+
+restart:
+	list_for_each_entry(bdata, &bdata_list, list) {
+		void *region;
+
+		if (goal && bdata->node_low_pfn <= PFN_DOWN(goal))
+			continue;
+		if (limit && bdata->node_boot_start >= limit)
+			break;
+
+		region = alloc_bootmem_core(bdata, size, align, goal, limit);
+		if (region)
+			return region;
+	}
+
 	if (goal) {
 		goal = 0;
-		sidx = 0;
-		goto find_block;
+		goto restart;
 	}
 
 	return NULL;
@@ -515,16 +548,23 @@ static void * __init alloc_bootmem_core(struct bootmem_data *bdata,
  * Returns NULL on failure.
  */
 void * __init __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
-				      unsigned long goal)
+					unsigned long goal)
 {
-	bootmem_data_t *bdata;
-	void *ptr;
+	return ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size, align, goal, 0);
+}
 
-	list_for_each_entry(bdata, &bdata_list, list) {
-		ptr = alloc_bootmem_core(bdata, size, align, goal, 0);
-		if (ptr)
-			return ptr;
-	}
+static void * __init ___alloc_bootmem(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
+					unsigned long goal, unsigned long limit)
+{
+	void *mem = ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size, align, goal, limit);
+
+	if (mem)
+		return mem;
+	/*
+	 * Whoops, we cannot satisfy the allocation request.
+	 */
+	printk(KERN_ALERT "bootmem alloc of %lu bytes failed!\n", size);
+	panic("Out of memory");
 	return NULL;
 }
 
@@ -544,16 +584,7 @@ void * __init __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 void * __init __alloc_bootmem(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 			      unsigned long goal)
 {
-	void *mem = __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size,align,goal);
-
-	if (mem)
-		return mem;
-	/*
-	 * Whoops, we cannot satisfy the allocation request.
-	 */
-	printk(KERN_ALERT "bootmem alloc of %lu bytes failed!\n", size);
-	panic("Out of memory");
-	return NULL;
+	return ___alloc_bootmem(size, align, goal, 0);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -653,22 +684,7 @@ void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
 void * __init __alloc_bootmem_low(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 				  unsigned long goal)
 {
-	bootmem_data_t *bdata;
-	void *ptr;
-
-	list_for_each_entry(bdata, &bdata_list, list) {
-		ptr = alloc_bootmem_core(bdata, size, align, goal,
-					ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
-		if (ptr)
-			return ptr;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Whoops, we cannot satisfy the allocation request.
-	 */
-	printk(KERN_ALERT "low bootmem alloc of %lu bytes failed!\n", size);
-	panic("Out of low memory");
-	return NULL;
+	return ___alloc_bootmem(size, align, goal, ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
 }
 
 /**