tree 70ebb0cce1b01140288b4b56f0a8500fb21a7c7f
parent cc6266f0322fa9f7f4543564759e881d989ad866
author Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> 1642198017 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1642257028 +0200

mm/vmalloc: alloc GFP_NO{FS,IO} for vmalloc

Patch series "extend vmalloc support for constrained allocations", v2.

Based on a recent discussion with Dave and Neil [1] I have tried to
implement NOFS, NOIO, NOFAIL support for the vmalloc to make life of
kvmalloc users easier.

A requirement for NOFAIL support for kvmalloc was new to me but this
seems to be really needed by the xfs code.

NOFS/NOIO was a known and a long term problem which was hoped to be
handled by the scope API.  Those scope should have been used at the
reclaim recursion boundaries both to document them and also to remove
the necessity of NOFS/NOIO constrains for all allocations within that
scope.  Instead workarounds were developed to wrap a single allocation
instead (like ceph_kvmalloc).

First patch implements NOFS/NOIO support for vmalloc.  The second one
adds NOFAIL support and the third one bundles all together into kvmalloc
and drops ceph_kvmalloc which can use kvmalloc directly now.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/163184741778.29351.16920832234899124642.stgit@noble.brown

This patch (of 4):

vmalloc historically hasn't supported GFP_NO{FS,IO} requests because
page table allocations do not support externally provided gfp mask and
performed GFP_KERNEL like allocations.

Since few years we have scope (memalloc_no{fs,io}_{save,restore}) APIs
to enforce NOFS and NOIO constrains implicitly to all allocators within
the scope.  There was a hope that those scopes would be defined on a
higher level when the reclaim recursion boundary starts/stops (e.g.
when a lock required during the memory reclaim is required etc.).  It
seems that not all NOFS/NOIO users have adopted this approach and
instead they have taken a workaround approach to wrap a single
[k]vmalloc allocation by a scope API.

These workarounds do not serve the purpose of a better reclaim recursion
documentation and reduction of explicit GFP_NO{FS,IO} usege so let's
just provide them with the semantic they are asking for without a need
for workarounds.

Add support for GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO to vmalloc directly.  All internal
allocations already comply with the given gfp_mask.  The only current
exception is vmap_pages_range which maps kernel page tables.  Infer the
proper scope API based on the given gfp mask.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: mm/vmalloc.c needs linux/sched/mm.h]
 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211217232641.0148710c@canb.auug.org.au

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211122153233.9924-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211122153233.9924-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>