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authorJoonsoo Kim <[email protected]>2020-08-06 23:26:04 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2020-08-07 11:33:29 -0700
commit8510e69c8efef82f2b37ea3e8ea19a27122c533e (patch)
tree41e4a0fc437e4e723bece37ca7ebc8005c26c68f /lib/test_overflow.c
parent182f3d7a02fddd9e4b1181c2ba710a930e05ddbb (diff)
mm/page_alloc: fix memalloc_nocma_{save/restore} APIs
Currently, memalloc_nocma_{save/restore} API that prevents CMA area in page allocation is implemented by using current_gfp_context(). However, there are two problems of this implementation. First, this doesn't work for allocation fastpath. In the fastpath, original gfp_mask is used since current_gfp_context() is introduced in order to control reclaim and it is on slowpath. So, CMA area can be allocated through the allocation fastpath even if memalloc_nocma_{save/restore} APIs are used. Currently, there is just one user for these APIs and it has a fallback method to prevent actual problem. Second, clearing __GFP_MOVABLE in current_gfp_context() has a side effect to exclude the memory on the ZONE_MOVABLE for allocation target. To fix these problems, this patch changes the implementation to exclude CMA area in page allocation. Main point of this change is using the alloc_flags. alloc_flags is mainly used to control allocation so it fits for excluding CMA area in allocation. Fixes: d7fefcc8de91 (mm/cma: add PF flag to force non cma alloc) Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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