From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-16.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775A4C43462 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:35:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DB0613B0 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:35:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232206AbhDOKgO (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:36:14 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49430 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230190AbhDOKgN (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:36:13 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.221.27]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94B8AF0D; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:35:49 +0000 (UTC) From: Oscar Salvador To: Andrew Morton Cc: Mike Kravetz , Vlastimil Babka , David Hildenbrand , Michal Hocko , Muchun Song , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oscar Salvador , Michal Hocko Subject: [PATCH v8 1/7] mm,page_alloc: Bail out earlier on -ENOMEM in alloc_contig_migrate_range Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:35:38 +0200 Message-Id: <20210415103544.6791-2-osalvador@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.28.0 In-Reply-To: <20210415103544.6791-1-osalvador@suse.de> References: <20210415103544.6791-1-osalvador@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Currently, __alloc_contig_migrate_range can generate -EINTR, -ENOMEM or -EBUSY, and report them down the chain. The problem is that when migrate_pages() reports -ENOMEM, we keep going till we exhaust all the try-attempts (5 at the moment) instead of bailing out. migrate_pages() bails out right away on -ENOMEM because it is considered a fatal error. Do the same here instead of keep going and retrying. Note that this is not fixing a real issue, just a cosmetic change. Although we can save some cycles by backing off ealier Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Mike Kravetz --- mm/page_alloc.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 1c67c99603a3..689454692de1 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -8697,7 +8697,7 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct compact_control *cc, } tries = 0; } else if (++tries == 5) { - ret = ret < 0 ? ret : -EBUSY; + ret = -EBUSY; break; } @@ -8707,6 +8707,13 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct compact_control *cc, ret = migrate_pages(&cc->migratepages, alloc_migration_target, NULL, (unsigned long)&mtc, cc->mode, MR_CONTIG_RANGE); + + /* + * On -ENOMEM, migrate_pages() bails out right away. It is pointless + * to retry again over this error, so do the same here. + */ + if (ret == -ENOMEM) + break; } lru_cache_enable(); -- 2.16.3