[merged mm-stable] mm-page_alloc-use-existing-highatomic-reserves-on-the-buddy-fastpath.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-page_alloc-use-existing-highatomic-reserves-on-the-buddy-fastpath.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/page_alloc: use existing highatomic reserves on the buddy fastpath
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-page_alloc-use-existing-highatomic-reserves-on-the-buddy-fastpath.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: JP Kobryn <jp.kobryn@linux.dev>
Subject: mm/page_alloc: use existing highatomic reserves on the buddy fastpath
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:46:00 -0700

ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC currently provides both access to MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC free
pages and permission to create new highatomic pageblock reserves.  This
makes it unsuitable for the fastpath.

However, the fastpath can reach rmqueue_buddy() while MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC
reserves have free pages available.  In this situation, the allocation can
fall back to other migratetypes without trying those reserves first.

Allow high-priority non-blocking allocations to use existing
MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC reserves on the buddy fastpath without growing them. 
First tighten the criteria for reserving pageblocks so that growth may
only occur in the slowpath.  Then allow fastpath usage by enabling
ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC when the GFP mask describes a non-blocking high-priority
allocation.  This logic has been factored out from gfp_to_alloc_flags() to
a new function gfp_to_alloc_flags_nonblocking().

A UDP receive workload was run with free MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC pageblocks
available in the target zone.  Before this patch, the workload did not
consume these blocks.  With this patch, eligible order-1 allocations
reaching the buddy path consumed existing MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC pageblocks,
with no highatomic misses observed.  The workload did not grow highatomic
reserves and NAPI page-frag allocations remained healthy with no failures
or order-0 fallbacks.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260623004600.113347-1-jp.kobryn@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn <jp.kobryn@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/page_alloc.c |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-use-existing-highatomic-reserves-on-the-buddy-fastpath
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3249,10 +3249,11 @@ struct page *rmqueue_buddy(struct zone *
 	} while (check_new_pages(page, order));
 
 	/*
-	 * If this is a high-order atomic allocation then check
-	 * if the pageblock should be reserved for the future
+	 * Slowpath (precarious) high-atomic allocations may reserve
+	 * a pageblock for future use.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(alloc_flags & ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC))
+	if (unlikely((alloc_flags & ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC) &&
+			((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK) == ALLOC_WMARK_MIN)))
 		reserve_highatomic_pageblock(page, order, zone);
 
 	__count_zid_vm_events(PGALLOC, page_zonenum(page), 1 << order);
@@ -4473,6 +4474,29 @@ static void wake_all_kswapds(unsigned in
 }
 
 static inline unsigned int
+gfp_to_alloc_flags_nonblocking(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
+{
+	unsigned int alloc_flags = 0;
+
+	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM)
+		return 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * Not worth trying to allocate harder for __GFP_NOMEMALLOC even
+	 * if it can't schedule.
+	 */
+	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
+		return 0;
+
+	alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NON_BLOCK;
+
+	if (order > 0 && (gfp_mask & __GFP_HIGH))
+		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC;
+
+	return alloc_flags;
+}
+
+static inline unsigned int
 gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
 {
 	unsigned int alloc_flags = ALLOC_WMARK_MIN | ALLOC_CPUSET;
@@ -4488,18 +4512,9 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsig
 	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
 		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_KSWAPD;
 
-	if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM)) {
-		/*
-		 * Not worth trying to allocate harder for __GFP_NOMEMALLOC even
-		 * if it can't schedule.
-		 */
-		if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) {
-			alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NON_BLOCK;
-
-			if (order > 0 && (alloc_flags & ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE))
-				alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC;
-		}
+	alloc_flags |= gfp_to_alloc_flags_nonblocking(gfp_mask, order);
 
+	if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM)) {
 		/*
 		 * Ignore cpuset mems for non-blocking __GFP_HIGH (probably
 		 * GFP_ATOMIC) rather than fail, see the comment for
@@ -5292,6 +5307,7 @@ struct page *__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof
 	 * memory until all local zones are considered.
 	 */
 	alloc_flags |= alloc_flags_nofragment(zonelist_zone(ac.preferred_zoneref), gfp);
+	alloc_flags |= gfp_to_alloc_flags_nonblocking(gfp, order) & ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC;
 
 	/* First allocation attempt */
 	page = get_page_from_freelist(alloc_gfp, order, alloc_flags, &ac);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from jp.kobryn@linux.dev are