From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"'Johannes Weiner'" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"'Tetsuo Handa'" <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
"'David Rientjes'" <rientjes@google.com>,
"'Mel Gorman'" <mgorman@suse.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, "'LKML'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm, oom: do not enfore OOM killer for __GFP_NOFAIL automatically
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:40:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170124124048.GE6867@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001f01d272f7$e53acbd0$afb06370$@alibaba-inc.com>
On Fri 20-01-17 16:33:36, Hillf Danton wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, December 20, 2016 9:49 PM Michal Hocko wrote:
> >
> > @@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
> > * make sure exclude 0 mask - all other users should have at least
> > * ___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM to get here.
> > */
> > - if (oc->gfp_mask && !(oc->gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOFAIL)))
> > + if (oc->gfp_mask && !(oc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
> > return true;
> >
> As to GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL request, can we check gfp mask
> one bit after another?
>
> if (oc->gfp_mask) {
> if (!(oc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
> return false;
>
> /* No service for request that can handle fail result itself */
> if (!(oc->gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
> return false;
> }
I really do not understand this request. This patch is removing the
__GFP_NOFAIL part... Besides that why should they return false?
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-24 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-20 13:49 [PATCH 0/3 -v3] GFP_NOFAIL cleanups Michal Hocko
2016-12-20 13:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: consolidate GFP_NOFAIL checks in the allocator slowpath Michal Hocko
2016-12-20 13:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm, oom: do not enfore OOM killer for __GFP_NOFAIL automatically Michal Hocko
2016-12-20 15:31 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-12-21 8:15 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-19 18:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2017-01-20 8:33 ` Hillf Danton
2017-01-24 12:40 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-01-25 7:00 ` Hillf Danton
2017-01-25 7:59 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-25 8:41 ` Hillf Danton
2017-01-25 10:19 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-20 13:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: help __GFP_NOFAIL allocations which do not trigger OOM killer Michal Hocko
2017-01-02 15:49 ` [PATCH 0/3 -v3] GFP_NOFAIL cleanups Michal Hocko
2017-01-03 1:36 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-01-03 8:42 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-03 14:38 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-01-03 16:25 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-03 20:40 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-04 14:22 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-01-04 15:20 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-05 10:50 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-01-05 11:54 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-18 18:42 ` Michal Hocko
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