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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de,
	travis@sgi.com
Subject: [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:59:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071004040004.708466159@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20071004035935.042951211@sgi.com

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Peter Zijlstra has recently demonstrated that we can have order 1 allocation
failures under memory pressure with small memory configurations. The
x86_64 stack has a size of 8k and thus requires a order 1 allocation.

This patch adds a virtual fallback capability for the stack. The system may
continue even in extreme situations and we may be able to increase the stack
size if necessary (see next patch).

Cc: ak@suse.de
Cc: travis@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

---
 include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h |   16 +++++-----------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h	2007-10-03 14:49:48.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h	2007-10-03 14:51:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -74,20 +74,14 @@ static inline struct thread_info *stack_
 
 /* thread information allocation */
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
-#define alloc_thread_info(tsk)					\
-    ({								\
-	struct thread_info *ret;				\
-								\
-	ret = ((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,THREAD_ORDER)); \
-	if (ret)						\
-		memset(ret, 0, THREAD_SIZE);			\
-	ret;							\
-    })
+#define THREAD_FLAGS (GFP_VFALLBACK | __GFP_ZERO)
 #else
-#define alloc_thread_info(tsk) \
-	((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,THREAD_ORDER))
+#define THREAD_FLAGS GFP_VFALLBACK
 #endif
 
+#define alloc_thread_info(tsk) \
+	((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(THREAD_FLAGS, THREAD_ORDER))
+
 #define free_thread_info(ti) free_pages((unsigned long) (ti), THREAD_ORDER)
 
 #else /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-04  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-04  3:59 [00/18] Virtual Compound Page Support V2 Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [01/18] vmalloc: clean up page array indexing Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [02/18] vunmap: return page array passed on vmap() Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [03/18] vmalloc_address(): Determine vmalloc address from page struct Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [04/18] Vcompound: Smart up virt_to_head_page() Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [05/18] Page flags: Add PageVcompound() Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [06/18] Vcompound: Update page address determination Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [07/18] Vcompound: Add compound_nth_page() to determine nth base page Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [08/18] GFP_VFALLBACK: Allow fallback of compound pages to virtual mappings Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [09/18] Vcompound: GFP_VFALLBACK debugging aid Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [10/18] Sparsemem: Use fallback for the memmap Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [11/18] Page allocator: Use a higher order allocation for the zone wait table Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [12/18] Wait: Allow bit_waitqueue to wait on a bit in a virtual compound page Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-10-04 11:56   ` [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack Andi Kleen
2007-10-04 12:08     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04 12:25       ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-04 12:30         ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04 17:40         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 19:20     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 19:39       ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-04 21:20         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-07  7:35           ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-08 17:36             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-08 12:55               ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-09 18:39                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-09  8:46                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10  1:26                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-09  9:56                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10  3:36                         ` where to get ZONE_MOVABLE pathces? Jacky(GuangXiang  Lee)
2007-10-10 10:32                           ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-06 18:53         ` [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack Bill Davidsen
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [14/18] Configure stack size Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  4:36   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-04  4:43     ` David Miller, Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-04 19:34       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  9:11   ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-04 19:26     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [15/18] Fallback for temporary order 2 allocation Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [16/18] Virtual Compound page allocation from interrupt context Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [17/18] Virtual compound page freeing in " Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  3:59 ` [18/18] SLUB: Use fallback for table of callers/freers of a slab cache Christoph Lameter

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