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mm: kvmalloc support __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL for all sizes
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Now that __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL has a reasonable semantic regardless of the
request size we can drop the hackish implementation for !costly orders.
__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL retries as long as the reclaim makes a forward
progress and backs of when we are out of memory for the requested size.
Therefore we do not need to enforce__GFP_NORETRY for !costly orders just
to silent the oom killer anymore.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Alex Belits <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Cc: David Daney <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Michal Hocko authored and torvalds committed Jul 12, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -339,9 +339,9 @@ 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_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.
* Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported.
* __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is supported, and it should be used only if kmalloc is
* preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks.
*
* Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted with mm people.
*/
Expand All @@ -366,13 +366,7 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
if (size > PAGE_SIZE) {
kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN;

/*
* 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_RETRY_MAYFAIL) ||
(size <= PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL))
kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY;
}

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