linux/net/core
Mel Gorman d0164adc89 mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd
__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts.  They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve".  __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".

Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available.  Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.

This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative.  High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH.  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim.  __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim.  __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.

This patch then converts a number of sites

o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
  pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.

o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
  into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
  are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.

o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
  helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
  checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
  positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
  is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
  flag manipulations.

o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
  and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.

The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.

The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL.  They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
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Makefile lwtunnel: infrastructure for handling light weight tunnels like mpls 2015-07-21 10:39:03 -07:00
datagram.c net: Fix skb_set_peeked use-after-free bug 2015-08-06 21:55:47 -07:00
dev.c net/core: fix for_each_netdev_feature 2015-11-03 11:29:57 -05:00
dev_addr_lists.c net: fix spelling for synchronized 2014-11-18 15:26:32 -05:00
dev_ioctl.c dev_ioctl: use sizeof(x) instead of sizeof x 2014-11-18 15:27:32 -05:00
drop_monitor.c net: Replace get_cpu_var through this_cpu_ptr 2014-08-26 13:45:47 -04:00
dst.c dst: Pass net into dst->output 2015-10-08 04:27:03 -07:00
ethtool.c ethtool: Use kcalloc instead of kmalloc for ethtool_get_strings 2015-10-14 19:00:20 -07:00
fib_rules.c fib_rules: fix fib rule dumps across multiple skbs 2015-09-24 15:21:54 -07:00
filter.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-10-20 06:08:27 -07:00
flow.c flow: Move __get_hash_from_flowi{4,6} into flow_dissector.c 2015-09-01 17:00:24 -07:00
flow_dissector.c flow_dissector: Use 'const' where possible. 2015-09-01 21:19:17 -07:00
gen_estimator.c net_sched: gen_estimator: extend pps limit 2015-07-08 13:59:20 -07:00
gen_stats.c gen_stats.c: Duplicate xstats buffer for later use 2015-02-19 15:45:53 -05:00
link_watch.c dev: introduce dev_get_iflink() 2015-04-02 14:04:59 -04:00
lwtunnel.c dst: Pass net into dst->output 2015-10-08 04:27:03 -07:00
neighbour.c net: Add support for filtering neigh dump by device index 2015-10-07 04:12:02 -07:00
net-procfs.c rps: selective flow shedding during softnet overflow 2013-05-20 13:48:04 -07:00
net-sysfs.c switchdev: rename SWITCHDEV_ATTR_* enum values to SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_* 2015-10-03 04:49:37 -07:00
net-sysfs.h net: netdev_kobject_init: annotate with __init 2014-01-05 20:27:54 -05:00
net-traces.c net: FIB tracepoints 2015-08-29 13:05:16 -07:00
net_namespace.c netns: make nsid_lock per net 2015-05-17 23:41:11 -04:00
netclassid_cgroup.c cgroup: net_cls: fix false-positive "suspicious RCU usage" 2015-07-25 00:13:18 -07:00
netevent.c netevent: remove automatic variable in register_netevent_notifier() 2015-05-31 00:03:21 -07:00
netpoll.c netpoll: Drop budget parameter from NAPI polling call hierarchy 2015-09-29 14:57:16 -07:00
netprio_cgroup.c cgroup: rename cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes to ->legacy_cftypes 2014-07-15 11:05:09 -04:00
pktgen.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-08-13 16:23:11 -07:00
ptp_classifier.c ptp: Change ptp_class to a proper bitmask 2015-11-03 11:08:22 -05:00
request_sock.c tcp: restore fastopen operations 2015-10-05 03:19:06 -07:00
rtnetlink.c if_link: Add control trust VF 2015-10-23 05:44:28 -07:00
scm.c net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr 2014-12-10 22:41:55 -05:00
secure_seq.c net: remove a sparse error in secure_dccpv6_sequence_number() 2015-05-25 22:55:37 -04:00
skbuff.c mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
sock.c mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
sock_diag.c net/core: make sock_diag.c explicitly non-modular 2015-10-09 07:52:27 -07:00
stream.c tcp: set SOCK_NOSPACE under memory pressure 2015-05-09 17:38:36 -04:00
sysctl_net_core.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-03-20 18:51:09 -04:00
timestamping.c net: skb_defer_rx_timestamp should check for phydev before setting up classify 2015-07-09 14:17:15 -07:00
tso.c net: tso: add support for IPv6 2015-10-26 22:24:22 -07:00
utils.c net: move net_get_random_once to lib 2015-10-08 05:26:35 -07:00