Re: [RESEND PATCH v1] mm/vmalloc: fix page mapping if vm_area_alloc_pages() with high order fallback to order 0

[Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>]

On 08/16/24 at 12:13pm, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 05:12:32PM +0800, Hailong Liu wrote:
> > On Thu, 15. Aug 22:07, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 11:41:42 +0200 Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > Acked-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > because we already have a fallback here:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > void *__vmalloc_node_range_noprof :
> > > > > >
> > > > > > fail:
> > > > > >         if (shift > PAGE_SHIFT) {
> > > > > >                 shift = PAGE_SHIFT;
> > > > > >                 align = real_align;
> > > > > >                 size = real_size;
> > > > > >                 goto again;
> > > > > >         }
> > > > >
> > > > > This really deserves a comment because this is not really clear at all.
> > > > > The code is also fragile and it would benefit from some re-org.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for the fix.
> > > > >
> > > > > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> > > > >
> > > > I agree. This is only clear for people who know the code. A "fallback"
> > > > to order-0 should be commented.
> > >
> > > It's been a week.  Could someone please propose a fixup patch to add
> > > this comment?
> > 
> > Hi Andrew:
> > 
> > Do you mean that I need to send a v2 patch with the the comments included?
> > 
> It is better to post v2.
> 
> But before, could you please comment on:
> 
> in case of order-0, bulk path may easily fail and fallback to the single
> page allocator. If an request is marked as NO_FAIL, i am talking about
> order-0 request, your change breaks GFP_NOFAIL for !order.

In case order-0, bulk_gfp masks off __GFP_NOFAIL, but alloc_gfp doesn't.
So alloc_gfp has __GFP_NOFAIL in fallback, it won't be failed by
alloc_pages().