From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756342Ab2BFXEu (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:04:50 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:48244 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756062Ab2BFW4Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:56:24 -0500 From: Mel Gorman To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linux-MM , Linux-Netdev , LKML , David Miller , Neil Brown , Peter Zijlstra , Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 04/15] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:56:07 +0000 Message-Id: <1328568978-17553-5-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.4 In-Reply-To: <1328568978-17553-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1328568978-17553-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is needed to allow network softirq packet processing to make use of PF_MEMALLOC. Currently softirq context cannot use PF_MEMALLOC due to it not being associated with a task, and therefore not having task flags to fiddle with - thus the gfp to alloc flag mapping ignores the task flags when in interrupts (hard or soft) context. Allowing softirqs to make use of PF_MEMALLOC therefore requires some trickery. We basically borrow the task flags from whatever process happens to be preempted by the softirq. So we modify the gfp to alloc flags mapping to not exclude task flags in softirq context, and modify the softirq code to save, clear and restore the PF_MEMALLOC flag. The save and clear, ensures the preempted task's PF_MEMALLOC flag doesn't leak into the softirq. The restore ensures a softirq's PF_MEMALLOC flag cannot leak back into the preempted process. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman --- include/linux/sched.h | 7 +++++++ kernel/softirq.c | 3 +++ mm/page_alloc.c | 5 ++++- 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 2234985..f000bd4 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1888,6 +1888,13 @@ static inline void rcu_copy_process(struct task_struct *p) #endif +static inline void tsk_restore_flags(struct task_struct *p, + unsigned long pflags, unsigned long mask) +{ + p->flags &= ~mask; + p->flags |= pflags & mask; +} + #ifdef CONFIG_SMP extern void do_set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *new_mask); diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c index 4eb3a0f..70abb53 100644 --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void) __u32 pending; int max_restart = MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART; int cpu; + unsigned long pflags = current->flags; + current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC; pending = local_softirq_pending(); account_system_vtime(current); @@ -265,6 +267,7 @@ restart: account_system_vtime(current); __local_bh_enable(SOFTIRQ_OFFSET); + tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC); } #ifndef __ARCH_HAS_DO_SOFTIRQ diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 91a762d..b462585 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2175,7 +2175,10 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask) if (likely(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC))) { if (gfp_mask & __GFP_MEMALLOC) alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS; - else if (likely(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) && !in_interrupt()) + else if (!in_irq() && (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)) + alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS; + else if (!in_interrupt() && + unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))) alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS; } -- 1.7.3.4