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From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: hughd@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: shmem: use proper gfp flags for shmem_writepage()
Date: Wed,  6 Nov 2019 06:02:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1572991351-86061-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)

The shmem_writepage() uses GFP_ATOMIC to allocate swap cache.
GFP_ATOMIC used to mean __GFP_HIGH, but now it means __GFP_HIGH |
__GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  However, shmem_writepage() should
write out to swap only in response to memory pressure, so
__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM looks useless since the caller may be kswapd itself
or in direct reclaim already.

In addition, XArray node allocations from PF_MEMALLOC contexts could
completely exhaust the page allocator, __GFP_NOMEMALLOC stops emergency
reserves from being allocated.

Here just copy the gfp flags used by add_to_swap().

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 mm/shmem.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 220be9f..9691dec 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1369,7 +1369,8 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	if (list_empty(&info->swaplist))
 		list_add(&info->swaplist, &shmem_swaplist);
 
-	if (add_to_swap_cache(page, swap, GFP_ATOMIC) == 0) {
+	if (add_to_swap_cache(page, swap,
+			__GFP_HIGH | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN) == 0) {
 		spin_lock_irq(&info->lock);
 		shmem_recalc_inode(inode);
 		info->swapped++;
-- 
1.8.3.1


             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-05 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-05 22:02 Yang Shi [this message]
2019-11-06 15:18 ` [PATCH] mm: shmem: use proper gfp flags for shmem_writepage() Michal Hocko
2019-11-06 18:23   ` Yang Shi
2019-11-06 18:59     ` Hugh Dickins
2019-11-06 18:59       ` Hugh Dickins
2019-11-07 20:19       ` Yang Shi
2019-11-07 22:59         ` Hugh Dickins
2019-11-07 22:59           ` Hugh Dickins

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