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Re: [RFC 06/13] mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and madvised allocations

From Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC 06/13] mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and madvised allocations
Date 2016-05-13 14:10 +0200
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On Fri 13-05-16 10:23:31, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 05/12/2016 06:20 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Tue 10-05-16 09:35:56, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > [...]
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
> > > index 570383a41853..0cb09714d960 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> > > @@ -256,8 +256,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
> > >   #define GFP_HIGHUSER	(GFP_USER | __GFP_HIGHMEM)
> > >   #define GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE	(GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_MOVABLE)
> > >   #define GFP_TRANSHUGE	((GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \
> > > -			 __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN) & \
> > > -			 ~__GFP_RECLAIM)
> > > +			 __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN) & ~__GFP_RECLAIM)
> > 
> > I am not sure this is the right thing to do. I think we should keep
> > __GFP_NORETRY and clear it where we want a stronger semantic. This is
> > just too suble that all callsites are doing the right thing.
> 
> That would complicate alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask() a bit, but if you
> think it's worth it, I can turn the default around, OK.

Hmm, on the other hand it is true that GFP_TRANSHUGE is clearing both
reclaim flags by default and then overwrites that. This is just too
ugly. Can we make GFP_TRANSHUGE to only define flags we care about and
then tweak those that should go away at the callsites which matter now
that we do not rely on is_thp_gfp_mask?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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Re: [RFC 06/13] mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and  madvised allocations Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-12 18:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC 06/13] mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and  madvised allocations Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-13 10:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC 06/13] mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and  madvised allocations Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-13 14:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC 06/13] mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and  madvised allocations Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-18 14:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC 06/13] mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and  madvised allocations Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-18 17:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC 06/13] mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and  madvised allocations Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-20 16:00 +0200
            Re: [RFC 06/13] mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and  madvised allocations Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-23 10:40 +0200

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