1. 16 5月, 2017 3 次提交
  2. 15 5月, 2017 8 次提交
  3. 09 5月, 2017 5 次提交
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      mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly · 19809c2d
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      __vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying
      allocation.  This API is quite popular
      
        $ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l
        77
      
      The only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want
      to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no
      reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages
      which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space.  About half of users don't
      use this flag, though.  This signals that we make the API unnecessarily
      too complex.
      
      This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to
      be mapped to the vmalloc space.  Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM
      are simplified and drop the flag.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307141020.29107-1-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Reviewed-by: NMatthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Cristopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      19809c2d
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      drivers/md/bcache/super.c: use kvmalloc · bc4e54f6
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      bcache_device_init uses kmalloc for small requests and vmalloc for those
      which are larger than 64 pages.  This alone is a strange criterion.
      Moreover kmalloc can fallback to vmalloc on the failure.  Let's simply
      use kvmalloc instead as it knows how to handle the fallback properly
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-5-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      bc4e54f6
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      drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c: use kvmalloc rather than opencoded variant · d224e938
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      copy_params uses kmalloc with vmalloc fallback.  We already have a
      helper for that - kvmalloc.  This caller requires GFP_NOIO semantic so
      it hasn't been converted with many others by previous patches.  All we
      need to achieve this semantic is to use the scope
      memalloc_noio_{save,restore} around kvmalloc.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-4-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d224e938
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      treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants · 752ade68
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      There are many code paths opencoding kvmalloc.  Let's use the helper
      instead.  The main difference to kvmalloc is that those users are
      usually not considering all the aspects of the memory allocator.  E.g.
      allocation requests <= 32kB (with 4kB pages) are basically never failing
      and invoke OOM killer to satisfy the allocation.  This sounds too
      disruptive for something that has a reasonable fallback - the vmalloc.
      On the other hand those requests might fallback to vmalloc even when the
      memory allocator would succeed after several more reclaim/compaction
      attempts previously.  There is no guarantee something like that happens
      though.
      
      This patch converts many of those places to kv[mz]alloc* helpers because
      they are more conservative.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-2-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> # Xen bits
      Acked-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> # Lustre
      Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # KVM/s390
      Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> # nvdim
      Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> # btrfs
      Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> # Ceph
      Acked-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> # mlx4
      Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> # mlx5
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
      Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
      Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
      Cc: Santosh Raspatur <santosh@chelsio.com>
      Cc: Hariprasad S <hariprasad@chelsio.com>
      Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
      Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
      Cc: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@redhat.com>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      752ade68
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      mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers · a7c3e901
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      Patch series "kvmalloc", v5.
      
      There are many open coded kmalloc with vmalloc fallback instances in the
      tree.  Most of them are not careful enough or simply do not care about
      the underlying semantic of the kmalloc/page allocator which means that
      a) some vmalloc fallbacks are basically unreachable because the kmalloc
      part will keep retrying until it succeeds b) the page allocator can
      invoke a really disruptive steps like the OOM killer to move forward
      which doesn't sound appropriate when we consider that the vmalloc
      fallback is available.
      
      As it can be seen implementing kvmalloc requires quite an intimate
      knowledge if the page allocator and the memory reclaim internals which
      strongly suggests that a helper should be implemented in the memory
      subsystem proper.
      
      Most callers, I could find, have been converted to use the helper
      instead.  This is patch 6.  There are some more relying on __GFP_REPEAT
      in the networking stack which I have converted as well and Eric Dumazet
      was not opposed [2] to convert them as well.
      
      [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170130094940.13546-1-mhocko@kernel.org
      [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485273626.16328.301.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com
      
      This patch (of 9):
      
      Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a
      common pattern in the kernel code.  Yet we do not have any common helper
      for that and so users have invented their own helpers.  Some of them are
      really creative when doing so.  Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure
      it is implemented properly.  This implementation makes sure to not make
      a large memory pressure for > PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also
      to not warn about allocation failures.  This also rules out the OOM
      killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive
      user visible action.
      
      This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which
      are specific for them.  In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
      ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc) because those seems to be broken and
      require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible in general
      (note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL).  Those need to be
      fixed separately.
      
      While we are at it, document that __vmalloc{_node} about unsupported gfp
      mask because there seems to be a lot of confusion out there.
      kvmalloc_node will warn about GFP_KERNEL incompatible (which are not
      superset) flags to catch new abusers.  Existing ones would have to die
      slowly.
      
      [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: f2fs fixup]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170320163735.332e64b7@canb.auug.org.au
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103032.2540-2-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>	[ext4 part]
      Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a7c3e901
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