From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: [PATCH 5/5] xen: Avoid allocations causing swap activity on the resume path Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:45:08 -0700 Message-ID: <4856DEE4.40603@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Xen-devel , Ian Campbell , NetDev To: Jens Axboe Return-path: Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:45433 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758049AbYFPVpu (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:45:50 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ian Campbell Avoid allocations causing swap activity on the resume path by preventing the allocations from doing IO and allowing them to access the emergency pools. These paths are used when a frontend device is trying to connect to its backend driver over Xenbus. These reconnections are triggered on demand by IO, so by definition there is already IO underway, and further IO would naturally deadlock. On resume, this path is triggered when the running system tries to continue using its devices. If it cannot then the resume will fail; to try to avoid this we let it dip into the emergency pools. [ linux-2.6.18-xen changesets e8b49cfbdac, fdb998e79aba ] Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge --- 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(-) =================================================================== --- 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_NOIO | __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_NOIO | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_HIGH); if (!copy) return -ENOMEM; memcpy(copy, info->shadow, sizeof(info->shadow)); =================================================================== --- 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_NOIO | __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_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH); if (!rxs) { err = -ENOMEM; xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "allocating rx ring page"); =================================================================== --- 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_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH, pathfmt, ap); va_end(ap); if (!path) { =================================================================== --- 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_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH, "%s", dir); else - buffer = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s/%s", dir, name); + buffer = kasprintf(GFP_NOIO | __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_NOIO | __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_NOIO | __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_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH); if (body == NULL) { kfree(msg); err = -ENOMEM;