linux/fs/xfs/kmem.c
NeilBrown 4034247a0d mm: introduce memalloc_retry_wait()
Various places in the kernel - largely in filesystems - respond to a
memory allocation failure by looping around and re-trying.  Some of
these cannot conveniently use __GFP_NOFAIL, for reasons such as:

 - a GFP_ATOMIC allocation, which __GFP_NOFAIL doesn't work on
 - a need to check for the process being signalled between failures
 - the possibility that other recovery actions could be performed
 - the allocation is quite deep in support code, and passing down an
   extra flag to say if __GFP_NOFAIL is wanted would be clumsy.

Many of these currently use congestion_wait() which (in almost all
cases) simply waits the given timeout - congestion isn't tracked for
most devices.

It isn't clear what the best delay is for loops, but it is clear that
the various filesystems shouldn't be responsible for choosing a timeout.

This patch introduces memalloc_retry_wait() with takes on that
responsibility.  Code that wants to retry a memory allocation can call
this function passing the GFP flags that were used.  It will wait
however is appropriate.

For now, it only considers __GFP_NORETRY and whatever
gfpflags_allow_blocking() tests.  If blocking is allowed without
__GFP_NORETRY, then alloc_page either made some reclaim progress, or
waited for a while, before failing.  So there is no need for much
further waiting.  memalloc_retry_wait() will wait until the current
jiffie ends.  If this condition is not met, then alloc_page() won't have
waited much if at all.  In that case memalloc_retry_wait() waits about
200ms.  This is the delay that most current loops uses.

linux/sched/mm.h needs to be included in some files now,
but linux/backing-dev.h does not.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163754371968.13692.1277530886009912421@noble.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-15 16:30:29 +02:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
* Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
* All Rights Reserved.
*/
#include "xfs.h"
#include "xfs_message.h"
#include "xfs_trace.h"
void *
kmem_alloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
{
int retries = 0;
gfp_t lflags = kmem_flags_convert(flags);
void *ptr;
trace_kmem_alloc(size, flags, _RET_IP_);
do {
ptr = kmalloc(size, lflags);
if (ptr || (flags & KM_MAYFAIL))
return ptr;
if (!(++retries % 100))
xfs_err(NULL,
"%s(%u) possible memory allocation deadlock size %u in %s (mode:0x%x)",
current->comm, current->pid,
(unsigned int)size, __func__, lflags);
memalloc_retry_wait(lflags);
} while (1);
}