From 2973d8229b78d3f148e0c45916a1e8b237dc6167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:12:17 +0000 Subject: mm: discard __GFP_ATOMIC __GFP_ATOMIC serves little purpose. Its main effect is to set ALLOC_HARDER which adds a few little boosts to increase the chance of an allocation succeeding, one of which is to lower the water-mark at which it will succeed. It is *always* paired with __GFP_HIGH which sets ALLOC_HIGH which also adjusts this watermark. It is probable that other users of __GFP_HIGH should benefit from the other little bonuses that __GFP_ATOMIC gets. __GFP_ATOMIC also gives a warning if used with __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM. There is little point to this. We already get a might_sleep() warning if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is set. __GFP_ATOMIC allows the "watermark_boost" to be side-stepped. It is probable that testing ALLOC_HARDER is a better fit here. __GFP_ATOMIC is used by tegra-smmu.c to check if the allocation might sleep. This should test __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM instead. This patch: - removes __GFP_ATOMIC - allows __GFP_HIGH allocations to ignore watermark boosting as well as GFP_ATOMIC requests. - makes other adjustments as suggested by the above. The net result is not change to GFP_ATOMIC allocations. Other allocations that use __GFP_HIGH will benefit from a few different extra privileges. This affects: xen, dm, md, ntfs3 the vermillion frame buffer hibernation ksm swap all of which likely produce more benefit than cost if these selected allocation are more likely to succeed quickly. [mgorman: Minor adjustments to rework on top of a series] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163712397076.13692.4727608274002939094@noble.neil.brown.name Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230113111217.14134-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Thierry Reding Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'tools/perf') diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c index 8ae0a1535293..f3029742b800 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c @@ -653,7 +653,6 @@ static const struct { { "__GFP_HIGHMEM", "HM" }, { "GFP_DMA32", "D32" }, { "__GFP_HIGH", "H" }, - { "__GFP_ATOMIC", "_A" }, { "__GFP_IO", "I" }, { "__GFP_FS", "F" }, { "__GFP_NOWARN", "NWR" }, -- cgit v1.2.3