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mm: introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to emergency reserves

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__GFP_MEMALLOC will allow the allocation to disregard the watermarks, much
like PF_MEMALLOC.  It allows one to pass along the memalloc state in
object related allocation flags as opposed to task related flags, such as
sk->sk_allocation.  This removes the need for ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC as callers
using __GFP_MEMALLOC can get the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK flag which is now
enough to identify allocations related to page reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman 2012-07-31 16:44:03 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5091b74a95
commit b37f1dd0f5
5 changed files with 21 additions and 16 deletions
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include/linux/gfp.h
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@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define ___GFP_REPEAT 0x400u
#define ___GFP_NOFAIL 0x800u
#define ___GFP_NORETRY 0x1000u
#define ___GFP_MEMALLOC 0x2000u
#define ___GFP_COMP 0x4000u
#define ___GFP_ZERO 0x8000u
#define ___GFP_NOMEMALLOC 0x10000u
@ -76,9 +77,14 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define __GFP_REPEAT ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_REPEAT) /* See above */
#define __GFP_NOFAIL ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOFAIL) /* See above */
#define __GFP_NORETRY ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NORETRY) /* See above */
#define __GFP_MEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_MEMALLOC)/* Allow access to emergency reserves */
#define __GFP_COMP ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_COMP) /* Add compound page metadata */
#define __GFP_ZERO ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_ZERO) /* Return zeroed page on success */
#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOMEMALLOC) /* Don't use emergency reserves */
#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOMEMALLOC) /* Don't use emergency reserves.
* This takes precedence over the
* __GFP_MEMALLOC flag if both are
* set
*/
#define __GFP_HARDWALL ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_HARDWALL) /* Enforce hardwall cpuset memory allocs */
#define __GFP_THISNODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_THISNODE)/* No fallback, no policies */
#define __GFP_RECLAIMABLE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_RECLAIMABLE) /* Page is reclaimable */
@ -129,7 +135,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
/* Control page allocator reclaim behavior */
#define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
/* Control slab gfp mask during early boot */
#define GFP_BOOT_MASK (__GFP_BITS_MASK & ~(__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS))