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| author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2022-01-14 14:07:14 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-01-15 16:30:29 +0200 |
| commit | 4034247a0d6ab281ba3293798ce67af494d86129 (patch) | |
| tree | 888a53c1c79490500c719b46894267e4f445264a /fs/f2fs/gc.c | |
| parent | 704687deaae768a818d7da0584ee021793a97684 (diff) | |
mm: introduce memalloc_retry_wait()
Various places in the kernel - largely in filesystems - respond to a
memory allocation failure by looping around and re-trying. Some of
these cannot conveniently use __GFP_NOFAIL, for reasons such as:
- a GFP_ATOMIC allocation, which __GFP_NOFAIL doesn't work on
- a need to check for the process being signalled between failures
- the possibility that other recovery actions could be performed
- the allocation is quite deep in support code, and passing down an
extra flag to say if __GFP_NOFAIL is wanted would be clumsy.
Many of these currently use congestion_wait() which (in almost all
cases) simply waits the given timeout - congestion isn't tracked for
most devices.
It isn't clear what the best delay is for loops, but it is clear that
the various filesystems shouldn't be responsible for choosing a timeout.
This patch introduces memalloc_retry_wait() with takes on that
responsibility. Code that wants to retry a memory allocation can call
this function passing the GFP flags that were used. It will wait
however is appropriate.
For now, it only considers __GFP_NORETRY and whatever
gfpflags_allow_blocking() tests. If blocking is allowed without
__GFP_NORETRY, then alloc_page either made some reclaim progress, or
waited for a while, before failing. So there is no need for much
further waiting. memalloc_retry_wait() will wait until the current
jiffie ends. If this condition is not met, then alloc_page() won't have
waited much if at all. In that case memalloc_retry_wait() waits about
200ms. This is the delay that most current loops uses.
linux/sched/mm.h needs to be included in some files now,
but linux/backing-dev.h does not.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163754371968.13692.1277530886009912421@noble.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/f2fs/gc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/f2fs/gc.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c index a946ce0ead34..374bbb5294d9 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ */ #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/module.h> -#include <linux/backing-dev.h> #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/f2fs_fs.h> #include <linux/kthread.h> @@ -15,6 +14,7 @@ #include <linux/freezer.h> #include <linux/sched/signal.h> #include <linux/random.h> +#include <linux/sched/mm.h> #include "f2fs.h" #include "node.h" @@ -1375,8 +1375,7 @@ retry: if (err) { clear_page_private_gcing(page); if (err == -ENOMEM) { - congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, - DEFAULT_IO_TIMEOUT); + memalloc_retry_wait(GFP_NOFS); goto retry; } if (is_dirty) |