mm: kvmalloc support __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL for all sizes
Now that __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL has a reasonable semantic regardless of the
request size we can drop the hackish implementation for !costly orders.
__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL retries as long as the reclaim makes a forward
progress and backs of when we are out of memory for the requested size.
Therefore we do not need to enforce__GFP_NORETRY for !costly orders just
to silent the oom killer anymore.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623085345.11304-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alex Belits <alex.belits@cavium.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 6520f2d..ee250e2 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -339,9 +339,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap);
* Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back
* to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory.
*
- * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
- * is supported only for large (>32kB) allocations, and it should be used only if
- * kmalloc is preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks.
+ * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported.
+ * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is supported, and it should be used only if kmalloc is
+ * preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks.
*
* Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted with mm people.
*/
@@ -366,13 +366,7 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
if (size > PAGE_SIZE) {
kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN;
- /*
- * We have to override __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL by __GFP_NORETRY for !costly
- * requests because there is no other way to tell the allocator
- * that we want to fail rather than retry endlessly.
- */
- if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) ||
- (size <= PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
+ if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL))
kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY;
}
