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 --- mm/mempool.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/mempool.c') diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c index b014ffeaa41..d691b5cb802 100644 --- a/mm/mempool.c +++ b/mm/mempool.c @@ -198,11 +198,16 @@ void * mempool_alloc(mempool_t *pool, unsigned int __nocast gfp_mask) void *element; unsigned long flags; DEFINE_WAIT(wait); - int gfp_nowait = gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO); + int gfp_nowait; + + gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOMEMALLOC; /* don't allocate emergency reserves */ + gfp_mask |= __GFP_NORETRY; /* don't loop in __alloc_pages */ + gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOWARN; /* failures are OK */ + gfp_nowait = gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO); might_sleep_if(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT); repeat_alloc: - element = pool->alloc(gfp_nowait|__GFP_NOWARN, pool->pool_data); + element = pool->alloc(gfp_nowait, pool->pool_data); if (likely(element != NULL)) return element; -- cgit v1.2.3