Re: [PATCH] mm,ksm: add __GFP_HIGH to the allocation in alloc_stable_node()

[zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>]

On 2016/9/21 5:06, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:54:44 +0800 zhongjiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> wrote:
>
>> From: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
>>
>> Accoding to HUgh's suggestion, alloc_stable_node() with GFP_KERNEL
>> will cause the hungtask, despite less possiblity.
>>
>> At present, if alloc_stable_node allocate fails, two break_cow may
>> want to allocate a couple of pages, and the issue will come up when
>> free memory is under pressure.
>>
>> we fix it by adding the __GFP_HIGH to GFP. because it grant access to
>> some of meory reserves. it will make progess to make it allocation
>> successful at the utmost.
>>
>> --- a/mm/ksm.c
>> +++ b/mm/ksm.c
>> @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ static inline void free_rmap_item(struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
>>  
>>  static inline struct stable_node *alloc_stable_node(void)
>>  {
>> -	return kmem_cache_alloc(stable_node_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	return kmem_cache_alloc(stable_node_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
>>  }
>>  
>>  static inline void free_stable_node(struct stable_node *stable_node)
> It is very hard for a reader to understand why this __GFP_HIGH is being
> used here, so we should have a code comment explaining the reasoning,
> please.
  ok,  I will add  some code comment later.
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