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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2017-07-11 01:49:08 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-11 02:32:32 +0300
commitaaf14e40a33a2c9350471387031ca40c00f5a006 (patch)
treea0868d293a7ce0b2706c5aa69246c75558a5381a /include/linux/hugetlb.h
parent422580c3cea7faaca67f6199375b79565d3d8ebd (diff)
downloadlinux-aaf14e40a33a2c9350471387031ca40c00f5a006.tar.xz
mm, hugetlb: unclutter hugetlb allocation layers
Patch series "mm, hugetlb: allow proper node fallback dequeue". While working on a hugetlb migration issue addressed in a separate patchset[1] I have noticed that the hugetlb allocations from the preallocated pool are quite subotimal. [1] //lkml.kernel.org/r/20170608074553.22152-1-mhocko@kernel.org There is no fallback mechanism implemented and no notion of preferred node. I have tried to work around it but Vlastimil was right to push back for a more robust solution. It seems that such a solution is to reuse zonelist approach we use for the page alloctor. This series has 3 patches. The first one tries to make hugetlb allocation layers more clear. The second one implements the zonelist hugetlb pool allocation and introduces a preferred node semantic which is used by the migration callbacks. The last patch is a clean up. This patch (of 3): Hugetlb allocation path for fresh huge pages is unnecessarily complex and it mixes different interfaces between layers. __alloc_buddy_huge_page is the central place to perform a new allocation. It checks for the hugetlb overcommit and then relies on __hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page to invoke the page allocator. This is all good except that __alloc_buddy_huge_page pushes vma and address down the callchain and so __hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page has to deal with two different allocation modes - one for memory policy and other node specific (or to make it more obscure node non-specific) requests. This just screams for a reorganization. This patch pulls out all the vma specific handling up to __alloc_buddy_huge_page_with_mpol where it belongs. __alloc_buddy_huge_page will get nodemask argument and __hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page will become a trivial wrapper over the page allocator. In short: __alloc_buddy_huge_page_with_mpol - memory policy handling __alloc_buddy_huge_page - overcommit handling and accounting __hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page - page allocator layer Also note that __hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page and its cpuset retry loop is not really needed because the page allocator already handles the cpusets update. Finally __hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page had a special case for node specific allocations (when no policy is applied and there is a node given). This has relied on __GFP_THISNODE to not fallback to a different node. alloc_huge_page_node is the only caller which relies on this behavior so move the __GFP_THISNODE there. Not only does this remove quite some code it also should make those layers easier to follow and clear wrt responsibilities. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170622193034.28972-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Tested-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/hugetlb.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/hugetlb.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 8fd0725d3f30..66b621469f52 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct page *alloc_huge_page_node(struct hstate *h, int nid);
struct page *alloc_huge_page_noerr(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, int avoid_reserve);
-struct page *alloc_huge_page_nodemask(struct hstate *h, const nodemask_t *nmask);
+struct page *alloc_huge_page_nodemask(struct hstate *h, nodemask_t *nmask);
int huge_add_to_page_cache(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t idx);