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From: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
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Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	 rppt@kernel.org, Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@oss.qualcomm.com>,
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	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
	 Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
	Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 17/22] mm/page_alloc: rename ALLOC_NON_BLOCK back to _HARDER
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:23:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260320-page_alloc-unmapped-v2-17-28bf1bd54f41@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260320-page_alloc-unmapped-v2-0-28bf1bd54f41@google.com>

Commit 1ebbb21811b7 ("mm/page_alloc: explicitly define how __GFP_HIGH
non-blocking allocations accesses reserves") renamed ALLOC_HARDER to
ALLOC_NON_BLOCK because the former is "a vague description".

However, vagueness is accurate here, this is a vague flag. It is not set
for __GFP_NOMEMALLOC. It doesn't really mean "allocate without blocking"
but rather "allow dipping into atomic reserves, _because_ of the need
not to block".

A later commit will need an alloc flag that really means "don't block
here", so go back to the flag's old name and update the commentary
to try and give it a slightly clearer meaning.

Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
---
 mm/internal.h   | 9 +++++----
 mm/page_alloc.c | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index d929274d73b92..cc19a90a7933f 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1413,9 +1413,10 @@ unsigned int reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(struct zone *zone,
 #define ALLOC_OOM		ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS
 #endif
 
-#define ALLOC_NON_BLOCK		 0x10 /* Caller cannot block. Allow access
-				       * to 25% of the min watermark or
-				       * 62.5% if __GFP_HIGH is set.
+#define ALLOC_HARDER		 0x10 /* Because the caller cannot block,
+				       * allow access * to 25% of the min
+				       * watermark or 62.5% if __GFP_HIGH is
+				       * set.
 				       */
 #define ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE	 0x20 /* __GFP_HIGH set. Allow access to 50%
 				       * of the min watermark.
@@ -1432,7 +1433,7 @@ unsigned int reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(struct zone *zone,
 #define ALLOC_KSWAPD		0x800 /* allow waking of kswapd, __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM set */
 
 /* Flags that allow allocations below the min watermark. */
-#define ALLOC_RESERVES (ALLOC_NON_BLOCK|ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE|ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC|ALLOC_OOM)
+#define ALLOC_RESERVES (ALLOC_HARDER|ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE|ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC|ALLOC_OOM)
 
 enum ttu_flags;
 struct tlbflush_unmap_batch;
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 53848312a0c21..9a07c552a1f8a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3355,7 +3355,7 @@ struct page *rmqueue_buddy(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *zone,
 			 * reserves as failing now is worse than failing a
 			 * high-order atomic allocation in the future.
 			 */
-			if (!page && (alloc_flags & (ALLOC_OOM|ALLOC_NON_BLOCK)))
+			if (!page && (alloc_flags & (ALLOC_OOM|ALLOC_HARDER)))
 				page = __rmqueue_smallest(zone, order, ft_high);
 
 			if (!page) {
@@ -3717,7 +3717,7 @@ bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, unsigned int order, unsigned long mark,
 			 * or (GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) do not get
 			 * access to the min reserve.
 			 */
-			if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NON_BLOCK)
+			if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER)
 				min -= min / 4;
 		}
 
@@ -4602,7 +4602,7 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
 	 * The caller may dip into page reserves a bit more if the caller
 	 * cannot run direct reclaim, or if the caller has realtime scheduling
 	 * policy or is asking for __GFP_HIGH memory.  GFP_ATOMIC requests will
-	 * set both ALLOC_NON_BLOCK and ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE(__GFP_HIGH).
+	 * set both ALLOC_HARDER and ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE(__GFP_HIGH).
 	 */
 	alloc_flags |= (__force int)
 		(gfp_mask & (__GFP_HIGH | __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM));
@@ -4613,7 +4613,7 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
 		 * if it can't schedule.
 		 */
 		if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) {
-			alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NON_BLOCK;
+			alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
 
 			if (order > 0 && (alloc_flags & ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE))
 				alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC;

-- 
2.51.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-20 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-20 18:23 [PATCH v2 00/22] mm: Add __GFP_UNMAPPED Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 01/22] x86/mm: split out preallocate_sub_pgd() Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 19:42   ` Dave Hansen
2026-03-23 11:01     ` Brendan Jackman
2026-03-24 15:27   ` Borislav Petkov
2026-03-25 13:28     ` Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 02/22] x86/mm: Generalize LDT remap into "mm-local region" Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 19:47   ` Dave Hansen
2026-03-23 12:01     ` Brendan Jackman
2026-03-23 12:57       ` Brendan Jackman
2026-03-25 14:23   ` Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 03/22] x86/tlb: Expose some flush function declarations to modules Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 04/22] mm: Create flags arg for __apply_to_page_range() Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 05/22] mm: Add more flags " Brendan Jackman
2026-03-26 16:14   ` Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 06/22] x86/mm: introduce the mermap Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 07/22] mm: KUnit tests for " Brendan Jackman
2026-03-24  8:00   ` kernel test robot
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 08/22] mm: introduce for_each_free_list() Brendan Jackman
2026-05-11 13:46   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 09/22] mm/page_alloc: don't overload migratetype in find_suitable_fallback() Brendan Jackman
2026-05-11 13:51   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-05-11 16:44     ` Brendan Jackman
2026-05-11 16:53       ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 10/22] mm: introduce freetype_t Brendan Jackman
2026-05-11 15:34   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-05-11 16:49     ` Brendan Jackman
2026-05-11 16:58       ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-05-11 18:17   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-05-11 18:26   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 11/22] mm: move migratetype definitions to freetype.h Brendan Jackman
2026-05-11 15:35   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 12/22] mm: add definitions for allocating unmapped pages Brendan Jackman
2026-05-11 18:01   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 13/22] mm: rejig pageblock mask definitions Brendan Jackman
2026-05-11 18:07   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 14/22] mm: encode freetype flags in pageblock flags Brendan Jackman
2026-05-11 18:29   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 15/22] mm/page_alloc: remove ifdefs from pindex helpers Brendan Jackman
2026-05-11 18:30   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-05-12  9:49     ` Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 16/22] mm/page_alloc: separate pcplists by freetype flags Brendan Jackman
2026-05-13  8:46   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-03-20 18:23 ` Brendan Jackman [this message]
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 18/22] mm/page_alloc: introduce ALLOC_NOBLOCK Brendan Jackman
2026-05-13  9:43   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-05-15 13:36     ` Brendan Jackman
2026-05-15 15:52       ` Gregory Price
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 19/22] mm/page_alloc: implement __GFP_UNMAPPED allocations Brendan Jackman
2026-05-13 15:43   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-05-15 16:46     ` Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 20/22] mm/page_alloc: implement __GFP_UNMAPPED|__GFP_ZERO allocations Brendan Jackman
2026-05-13 17:00   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-05-15 16:50     ` Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 21/22] mm: Minimal KUnit tests for some new page_alloc logic Brendan Jackman
2026-03-20 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 22/22] mm/secretmem: Use __GFP_UNMAPPED when available Brendan Jackman
2026-03-31 14:40   ` Brendan Jackman
2026-05-13 16:17 ` [PATCH v2 00/22] mm: Add __GFP_UNMAPPED Gregory Price
2026-05-13 17:14   ` Brendan Jackman
2026-05-13 17:28     ` Gregory Price
2026-05-13 17:38       ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-05-13 17:59         ` Gregory Price
2026-05-15  9:31           ` Brendan Jackman
2026-05-15 16:04             ` Gregory Price

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