From: Xiaotian Feng Subject: [PATCH -mmotm 10/30] mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:18:43 -0400 Message-ID: <20100713101843.2835.12822.sendpatchset@danny.redhat> References: <20100713101650.2835.15245.sendpatchset@danny.redhat> Cc: riel@redhat.com, cl@linux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, Xiaotian Feng , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lwang@redhat.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, akpm@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100713101650.2835.15245.sendpatchset@danny.redhat> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: >From 78618cc83e6a21b876c30a8fb3940ccc1f5b99e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xiaotian Feng Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:49:16 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 10/30] mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC __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. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng --- include/linux/gfp.h | 3 ++- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index 975609c..c608e26 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #define __GFP_REPEAT ((__force gfp_t)0x400u) /* See above */ #define __GFP_NOFAIL ((__force gfp_t)0x800u) /* See above */ #define __GFP_NORETRY ((__force gfp_t)0x1000u)/* See above */ +#define __GFP_MEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)0x2000u)/* Use emergency reserves */ #define __GFP_COMP ((__force gfp_t)0x4000u)/* Add compound page metadata */ #define __GFP_ZERO ((__force gfp_t)0x8000u)/* Return zeroed page on success */ #define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)0x10000u) /* Don't use emergency reserves */ @@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ 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)) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 21d64f7..f7d3060 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1930,7 +1930,9 @@ int gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask) alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER; if (likely(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC))) { - if (!in_irq() && (p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)) + if (gfp_mask & __GFP_MEMALLOC) + alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS; + else if (!in_irq() && (p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)) alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS; else if (!in_interrupt() && unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))) -- 1.7.1.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org