mm: ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK

The reserve is proportionally distributed over all !highmem zones in the
system.  So we need to allow an emergency allocation access to all zones.
In order to do that we need to break out of any mempolicy boundaries we
might have.

In my opinion that does not break mempolicies as those are user oriented
and not system oriented.  That is, system allocations are not guaranteed
to be within mempolicy boundaries.  For instance IRQs do not even have a
mempolicy.

So breaking out of mempolicy boundaries for 'rare' emergency allocations,
which are always system allocations (as opposed to user) is ok.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Christie <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric B Munson <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f9d925451bfd..ef2d1e72fc07 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2378,6 +2378,13 @@ rebalance:
 
 	/* Allocate without watermarks if the context allows */
 	if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) {
+		/*
+		 * Ignore mempolicies if ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS on the grounds
+		 * the allocation is high priority and these type of
+		 * allocations are system rather than user orientated
+		 */
+		zonelist = node_zonelist(numa_node_id(), gfp_mask);
+
 		page = __alloc_pages_high_priority(gfp_mask, order,
 				zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask,
 				preferred_zone, migratetype);