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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik.pobox.com@goop.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5 of 5] xen: Avoid allocations causing swap activity on the resume path
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 00:50:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c692f3a12da1e99a4a43.1212191405@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1212191400@localhost>

From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

Avoid allocations causing swap activity on the resume path by allowing
such allocations to access the emergency pools otherwise a
save/restore/migration of a guest which is low on memory can
deadlock.

[ linux-2.6.18-xen changesets e8b49cfbdac, fdb998e79aba ]

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

---
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c       |    5 +++--
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c         |    4 ++--
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c |    2 +-
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c     |   10 +++++-----
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@
 
 	info->ring_ref = GRANT_INVALID_REF;
 
-	sring = (struct blkif_sring *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+	sring = (struct blkif_sring *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
 	if (!sring) {
 		xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, -ENOMEM, "allocating shared ring");
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -741,7 +741,8 @@
 	int j;
 
 	/* Stage 1: Make a safe copy of the shadow state. */
-	copy = kmalloc(sizeof(info->shadow), GFP_KERNEL);
+	copy = kmalloc(sizeof(info->shadow),
+		       GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_HIGH);
 	if (!copy)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	memcpy(copy, info->shadow, sizeof(info->shadow));
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@
 		goto fail;
 	}
 
-	txs = (struct xen_netif_tx_sring *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+	txs = (struct xen_netif_tx_sring *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
 	if (!txs) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "allocating tx ring page");
@@ -1340,7 +1340,7 @@
 	}
 
 	info->tx_ring_ref = err;
-	rxs = (struct xen_netif_rx_sring *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+	rxs = (struct xen_netif_rx_sring *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
 	if (!rxs) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "allocating rx ring page");
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 	char *path;
 
 	va_start(ap, pathfmt);
-	path = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, pathfmt, ap);
+	path = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH, pathfmt, ap);
 	va_end(ap);
 
 	if (!path) {
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
@@ -283,9 +283,9 @@
 	char *buffer;
 
 	if (strlen(name) == 0)
-		buffer = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s", dir);
+		buffer = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH, "%s", dir);
 	else
-		buffer = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s/%s", dir, name);
+		buffer = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH, "%s/%s", dir, name);
 	return (!buffer) ? ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) : buffer;
 }
 
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@
 	*num = count_strings(strings, len);
 
 	/* Transfer to one big alloc for easy freeing. */
-	ret = kmalloc(*num * sizeof(char *) + len, GFP_KERNEL);
+	ret = kmalloc(*num * sizeof(char *) + len, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
 	if (!ret) {
 		kfree(strings);
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@
 	}
 
 
-	msg = kmalloc(sizeof(*msg), GFP_KERNEL);
+	msg = kmalloc(sizeof(*msg), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
 	if (msg == NULL) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	body = kmalloc(msg->hdr.len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	body = kmalloc(msg->hdr.len + 1, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
 	if (body == NULL) {
 		kfree(msg);
 		err = -ENOMEM;



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-31  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-30 23:50 [PATCH 0 of 5] xen device driver updates Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-30 23:50 ` [PATCH 1 of 5] xen/blkfront: Make sure we don't use bounce buffers, we don't need them Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-30 23:50 ` [PATCH 2 of 5] xn/blkfront: Add the CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY ioctl to blkfront Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-30 23:50 ` [PATCH 3 of 5] xen/blkfront: Make sure that the device is fully ready before allowing release Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-30 23:50 ` [PATCH 4 of 5] xen/blkfront: add __exit to module_exit() handlers Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-30 23:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-31  0:01 [PATCH 0 of 5] xen device driver updates [resend] Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-31  0:01 ` [PATCH 5 of 5] xen: Avoid allocations causing swap activity on the resume path Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-31  1:58   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-31  9:50     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-31  9:59       ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-31 10:10         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-31 23:47           ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-01  0:38             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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