mm/failslab.c: by default, do not fail allocations with direct reclai…

…m only

When failslab was originally written, the intention of the
"ignore-gfp-wait" flag default value ("N") was to fail GFP_ATOMIC
allocations.  Those were defined as (__GFP_HIGH), and the code would test
for __GFP_WAIT (0x10u).

However, since then, __GFP_WAIT was replaced by __GFP_RECLAIM
(___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM|___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM), and GFP_ATOMIC is now
defined as (__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM).

This means that when the flag is false, almost no allocation ever fails
(as even GFP_ATOMIC allocations contain ___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM).

Restore the original intent of the code, by ignoring calls that directly
reclaim only (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM), and thus, failing GFP_ATOMIC calls
again by default.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 71baba4 ("mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Akinobu Mita <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

mm/failslab.c

@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ bool __should_failslab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags)
 	if (gfpflags & __GFP_NOFAIL)
 		return false;
 
-	if (failslab.ignore_gfp_reclaim && (gfpflags & __GFP_RECLAIM))
+	if (failslab.ignore_gfp_reclaim &&
+			(gfpflags & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM))
 		return false;
 
 	if (failslab.cache_filter && !(s->flags & SLAB_FAILSLAB))