From: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>,
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Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
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Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v5 06/18] mm/page_alloc: relax GFP WARN in nolock allocs
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:31:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260703-alloc-trylock-v5-6-c87b714e19d3@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260703-alloc-trylock-v5-0-c87b714e19d3@google.com>
This WARN forbids setting other flags than __GFP_ACCOUNT but we
unconditionally set the ones in gfp_nolock so they are certainly fine
for the caller to set.
There are other GFP flags that are almost certainly fine to set here;
Willy noted GFP_HIGHMEM, GFP_DMA, GFP_MOVABLE and GFP_HARDWALL. But,
nolock allocation is rather special, so be conservative to try and
ensure we have a chance to think carefully before nontrivial new
usecases arise.
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ajS96fWbG4dzP3u3@casper.infradead.org/
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f47a848555077..c2839959d7908 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5355,7 +5355,8 @@ struct page *__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order,
return NULL;
if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NOLOCK) {
- VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp & ~__GFP_ACCOUNT);
+ /* Certain other flags could be supported later if needed. */
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp & ~(__GFP_ACCOUNT | gfp_nolock));
if (!alloc_nolock_allowed())
return NULL;
gfp |= gfp_nolock;
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-03 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-03 12:31 [PATCH v5 00/18] mm: Some cleanups for page allocator APIs Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 01/18] mm/page_alloc: rename ALLOC_TRYLOCK -> ALLOC_NOLOCK Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 13:59 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 02/18] mm/page_alloc: some renames to clarify alloc_flags scopes Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 14:01 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 03/18] mm: name some args in a function declaration Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 14:02 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 04/18] mm: Split out internal page_alloc.h Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 14:07 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 05/18] mm/page_alloc: unify __alloc_frozen_pages[_nolock]_noprof() Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 14:42 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` Brendan Jackman [this message]
2026-07-03 14:44 ` [PATCH v5 06/18] mm/page_alloc: relax GFP WARN in nolock allocs Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 07/18] mm: move some stuff to mm/page_alloc.h Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 14:46 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 08/18] perf/x86/intel: Use higher-level allocator API Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 14:49 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 09/18] KVM: VMX: " Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 14:49 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 10/18] x86/virt: " Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 14:50 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 11/18] sgi-xp: " Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 14:51 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 12/18] net/funeth: Switch to " Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 14:52 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 13/18] mm: Remove __alloc_pages_node() Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 14:57 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 14/18] mm: Move __alloc_pages() to mm/page_alloc.h Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 15:05 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 15/18] mm: replace __GFP_NO_CODETAG with ALLOC_NO_CODETAG Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 16/18] mm: remove the __GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT flag Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 17/18] mm/page_alloc: drop alloc_flags arg from alloc_flags_cma() Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 15:10 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:31 ` [PATCH v5 18/18] mm: factor out can_spin_trylock() Brendan Jackman
2026-07-03 15:12 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-03 12:47 ` [PATCH v5 00/18] mm: Some cleanups for page allocator APIs Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
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