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-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c22
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index ae721a713bda..c42ec374df96 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3085,7 +3085,6 @@ out:
return page;
}
-
/*
* Maximum number of compaction retries wit a progress before OOM
* killer is consider as the only way to move forward.
@@ -3373,11 +3372,6 @@ bool gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(gfp_t gfp_mask)
return false;
}
-static inline bool is_thp_gfp_mask(gfp_t gfp_mask)
-{
- return (gfp_mask & (GFP_TRANSHUGE | __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)) == GFP_TRANSHUGE;
-}
-
/*
* Maximum number of reclaim retries without any progress before OOM killer
* is consider as the only way to move forward.
@@ -3536,8 +3530,11 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
if (page)
goto got_pg;
- /* Checks for THP-specific high-order allocations */
- if (is_thp_gfp_mask(gfp_mask)) {
+ /*
+ * Checks for costly allocations with __GFP_NORETRY, which
+ * includes THP page fault allocations
+ */
+ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY) {
/*
* If compaction is deferred for high-order allocations,
* it is because sync compaction recently failed. If
@@ -3557,11 +3554,10 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
goto nopage;
/*
- * It can become very expensive to allocate transparent
- * hugepages at fault, so use asynchronous memory
- * compaction for THP unless it is khugepaged trying to
- * collapse. All other requests should tolerate at
- * least light sync migration.
+ * Looks like reclaim/compaction is worth trying, but
+ * sync compaction could be very expensive, so keep
+ * using async compaction, unless it's khugepaged
+ * trying to collapse.
*/
if (!(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
migration_mode = MIGRATE_ASYNC;