From b84a35be0285229b0a8a5e2e04d79360c5b75562 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 08:58:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mempool: NOMEMALLOC and NORETRY Mempools have 2 problems. The first is that mempool_alloc can possibly get stuck in __alloc_pages when they should opt to fail, and take an element from their reserved pool. The second is that it will happily eat emergency PF_MEMALLOC reserves instead of going to their reserved pools. Fix the first by passing __GFP_NORETRY in the allocation calls in mempool_alloc. Fix the second by introducing a __GFP_MEMPOOL flag which directs the page allocator not to allocate from the reserve pool. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/gfp.h | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index 848a1baac079..af7407e8cfc5 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -38,14 +38,16 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #define __GFP_NO_GROW 0x2000u /* Slab internal usage */ #define __GFP_COMP 0x4000u /* Add compound page metadata */ #define __GFP_ZERO 0x8000u /* Return zeroed page on success */ +#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC 0x10000u /* Don't use emergency reserves */ -#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT 16 /* Room for 16 __GFP_FOO bits */ +#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT 20 /* Room for 20 __GFP_FOO bits */ #define __GFP_BITS_MASK ((1 << __GFP_BITS_SHIFT) - 1) /* if you forget to add the bitmask here kernel will crash, period */ #define GFP_LEVEL_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS| \ __GFP_COLD|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT| \ - __GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_GROW|__GFP_COMP) + __GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_GROW|__GFP_COMP| \ + __GFP_NOMEMALLOC) #define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH) #define GFP_NOIO (__GFP_WAIT) -- cgit v1.2.3