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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	". Dave Chinner" <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] MM: improve documentation for __GFP_NOFAIL
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 14:27:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eba04a07-99da-771a-ab6b-36de41f9f120@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YVwyhDnE/HEnoLAi@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On 10/5/21 13:09, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 05-10-21 11:20:51, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> [...]
>> > --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
>> > +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
>> > @@ -209,7 +209,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
>> >   * used only when there is no reasonable failure policy) but it is
>> >   * definitely preferable to use the flag rather than opencode endless
>> >   * loop around allocator.
>> > - * Using this flag for costly allocations is _highly_ discouraged.
>> > + * Use of this flag may lead to deadlocks if locks are held which would
>> > + * be needed for memory reclaim, write-back, or the timely exit of a
>> > + * process killed by the OOM-killer.  Dropping any locks not absolutely
>> > + * needed is advisable before requesting a %__GFP_NOFAIL allocate.
>> > + * Using this flag for costly allocations (order>1) is _highly_ discouraged.
>> 
>> We define costly as 3, not 1. But sure it's best to avoid even order>0 for
>> __GFP_NOFAIL. Advising order>1 seems arbitrary though?
> 
> This is not completely arbitrary. We have a warning for any higher order
> allocation.
> rmqueue:
> 	WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_flags & __GFP_NOFAIL) && (order > 1));

Oh, I missed that.

> I do agree that "Using this flag for higher order allocations is
> _highly_ discouraged.

Well, with the warning in place this is effectively forbidden, not just
discouraged.

>> >   */
>> >  #define __GFP_IO	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_IO)
>> >  #define __GFP_FS	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_FS)
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-05 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-17  2:56 [PATCH 0/6 v2] congestion_wait() and GFP_NOFAIL NeilBrown
2021-09-17  2:56 ` [PATCH 6/6] XFS: remove congestion_wait() loop from xfs_buf_alloc_pages() NeilBrown
2021-09-17  2:56 ` [PATCH 5/6] XFS: remove congestion_wait() loop from kmem_alloc() NeilBrown
2021-09-17 21:45   ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-17  2:56 ` [PATCH 1/6] MM: Support __GFP_NOFAIL in alloc_pages_bulk_*() and improve doco NeilBrown
2021-09-17 14:42   ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-20 23:48     ` NeilBrown
2021-10-05  9:16     ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-17  2:56 ` [PATCH 3/6] EXT4: Remove ENOMEM/congestion_wait() loops NeilBrown
2021-09-17  2:56 ` [PATCH 4/6] EXT4: remove congestion_wait from ext4_bio_write_page, and simplify NeilBrown
2021-09-17  2:56 ` [PATCH 2/6] MM: improve documentation for __GFP_NOFAIL NeilBrown
2021-10-05  9:20   ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-10-05 11:09     ` Michal Hocko
2021-10-05 12:27       ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2021-10-06 23:14         ` Dave Chinner
2021-10-07 10:07           ` Michal Hocko
2021-10-07 23:15             ` NeilBrown
2021-10-08  7:48               ` Michal Hocko
2021-10-08 22:36                 ` Dave Chinner
2021-10-11 11:57                   ` Michal Hocko
2021-10-11 21:49                     ` NeilBrown
2021-10-18 10:23                       ` Michal Hocko
2021-10-19  4:32                         ` NeilBrown
2021-10-19 13:59                           ` Michal Hocko
2021-10-22  0:09                             ` NeilBrown
2021-10-13  2:32                     ` Dave Chinner
2021-10-13  8:26                       ` Michal Hocko
2021-10-14 11:32                         ` David Sterba
2021-10-14 11:46                           ` Michal Hocko

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