[PATCH v8 1/4] mm/cma: Add PF flag to force non cma alloc
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Thu Feb 28 01:47:33 AEDT 2019
This patch adds PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA which make sure any allocation in that context
is marked non-movable and hence cannot be satisfied by CMA region.
This is useful with get_user_pages_longterm where we want to take a page pin by
migrating pages from CMA region. Marking the section PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA ensures
that we avoid unnecessary page migration later.
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
include/linux/sched/mm.h | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index f9b43c989577..dfa90088ba08 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1403,6 +1403,7 @@ extern struct pid *cad_pid;
#define PF_UMH 0x02000000 /* I'm an Usermodehelper process */
#define PF_NO_SETAFFINITY 0x04000000 /* Userland is not allowed to meddle with cpus_allowed */
#define PF_MCE_EARLY 0x08000000 /* Early kill for mce process policy */
+#define PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA 0x10000000 /* All allocation request will have _GFP_MOVABLE cleared */
#define PF_MUTEX_TESTER 0x20000000 /* Thread belongs to the rt mutex tester */
#define PF_FREEZER_SKIP 0x40000000 /* Freezer should not count it as freezable */
#define PF_SUSPEND_TASK 0x80000000 /* This thread called freeze_processes() and should not be frozen */
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/mm.h b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
index 3bfa6a0cbba4..0cd9f10423fb 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
@@ -148,17 +148,25 @@ static inline bool in_vfork(struct task_struct *tsk)
* Applies per-task gfp context to the given allocation flags.
* PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO implies GFP_NOIO
* PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS implies GFP_NOFS
+ * PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA implies no allocation from CMA region.
*/
static inline gfp_t current_gfp_context(gfp_t flags)
{
- /*
- * NOIO implies both NOIO and NOFS and it is a weaker context
- * so always make sure it makes precedence
- */
- if (unlikely(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO))
- flags &= ~(__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS);
- else if (unlikely(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS))
- flags &= ~__GFP_FS;
+ if (unlikely(current->flags &
+ (PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO | PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS | PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA))) {
+ /*
+ * NOIO implies both NOIO and NOFS and it is a weaker context
+ * so always make sure it makes precedence
+ */
+ if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO)
+ flags &= ~(__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS);
+ else if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS)
+ flags &= ~__GFP_FS;
+#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
+ if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA)
+ flags &= ~__GFP_MOVABLE;
+#endif
+ }
return flags;
}
@@ -248,6 +256,30 @@ static inline void memalloc_noreclaim_restore(unsigned int flags)
current->flags = (current->flags & ~PF_MEMALLOC) | flags;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
+static inline unsigned int memalloc_nocma_save(void)
+{
+ unsigned int flags = current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA;
+
+ current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA;
+ return flags;
+}
+
+static inline void memalloc_nocma_restore(unsigned int flags)
+{
+ current->flags = (current->flags & ~PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA) | flags;
+}
+#else
+static inline unsigned int memalloc_nocma_save(void)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void memalloc_nocma_restore(unsigned int flags)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
/**
* memalloc_use_memcg - Starts the remote memcg charging scope.
--
2.20.1
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