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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: readahead page allocations are OK to fail
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:37:17 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110426093717.GA28812@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin8mE=DLWma=U+CdJaQW03X2M2W1w@mail.gmail.com>

Pass __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOWARN for readahead page allocations.

readahead page allocations are completely optional. They are OK to
fail and in particular shall not trigger OOM on themselves.

Reported-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---
 include/linux/pagemap.h |    6 ++++++
 mm/readahead.c          |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-next.orig/include/linux/pagemap.h	2011-04-26 14:27:46.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/include/linux/pagemap.h	2011-04-26 17:17:13.000000000 +0800
@@ -219,6 +219,12 @@ static inline struct page *page_cache_al
 	return __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(x)|__GFP_COLD);
 }
 
+static inline struct page *page_cache_alloc_readahead(struct address_space *x)
+{
+	return __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(x) |
+				  __GFP_COLD | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN);
+}
+
 typedef int filler_t(void *, struct page *);
 
 extern struct page * find_get_page(struct address_space *mapping,
--- linux-next.orig/mm/readahead.c	2011-04-26 14:27:02.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/mm/readahead.c	2011-04-26 17:17:25.000000000 +0800
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address
 		if (page)
 			continue;
 
-		page = page_cache_alloc_cold(mapping);
+		page = page_cache_alloc_readahead(mapping);
 		if (!page)
 			break;
 		page->index = page_offset;

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-26  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-26  5:49 readahead and oom Dave Young
2011-04-26  5:55 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-26  6:05   ` Dave Young
2011-04-26  6:07     ` Dave Young
2011-04-26  6:25       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-26  6:29         ` Dave Young
2011-04-26  6:34           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-26  6:50             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-26  7:41             ` Minchan Kim
2011-04-26  9:20               ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-26  9:28                 ` Minchan Kim
2011-04-26 10:18                   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-26 19:47                 ` Andrew Morton
2011-04-28  4:19                   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-28 13:36                   ` [RFC][PATCH] mm: cut down __GFP_NORETRY page allocation failures Wu Fengguang
2011-04-28 13:38                     ` [patch] vmstat: account " Wu Fengguang
2011-04-28 13:50                       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-29  2:28                     ` [RFC][PATCH] mm: cut down __GFP_NORETRY " Wu Fengguang
2011-04-29  2:58                       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-30 14:17                       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-01 16:35                         ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-01 16:37                           ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-02 10:14                             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-03  0:53                               ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-03  1:25                                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-02 10:29                           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-02 11:08                             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-03  0:49                             ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-03  3:51                               ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-03  4:17                                 ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-02 13:29                           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-02 13:49                             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-03  0:27                               ` Satoru Moriya
2011-05-03  2:49                                 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-04  1:56                     ` Dave Young
2011-05-04  2:32                       ` Dave Young
2011-05-04  2:56                         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-04  4:23                           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-04  4:00                       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-04  7:33                         ` Dave Young
2011-04-26  6:13     ` readahead and oom Wu Fengguang
2011-04-26  6:23       ` Dave Young
2011-04-26  9:37 ` Wu Fengguang [this message]

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