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SubjectRe: 2.6.26: x86/kernel/pci_dma.c: gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY ?
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On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 10:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:49:27AM -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > probably andi has a better idea on why it was added, since it used to
> > live in his tree?
>
> d_a_c() tries a couple of zones, and running the oom killer for each
> is inconvenient. Especially for the 16MB DMA zone which is unlikely
> to be cleared by the OOM killer anyways because normal user applications
> don't put pages in there. There was a real report with some problems
> in this area. Also for the earlier tries you don't want to really
> bring the system into swap.

I understand, but I do think using __GFP_NORETRY causes problems.

Most drivers call pci_alloc_consistent() which calls
dma_alloc_coherent(.... GFP_ATOMIC) which can dip deep into reserves so
it won't fail so easily. Just a handful use dma_alloc_coherent()
directly.

However, in 2.6.26-rc1, dpt_i2o.c was updated for 64 bit support, and
all it's kmalloc(.... GFP_KERNEL) + virt_to_bus() calls have been
replaced by dma_alloc_coherent(.... GFP_KERNEL).

In that case, it's not a very good idea to add __GFP_NORETRY. It will
cause problems. It certainly does in 3w-xxxx.c and it probably will
cause worse problems in dpt_i2o.c.

I think we should do something. How about one of these two patches.

# -----

linux-2.6.26-d_a_c-fix-noretry.patch

diff -ruN linux-2.6.26-rc3.orig/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c linux-2.6.26-rc3/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
--- linux-2.6.26-rc3.orig/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c 2008-05-18 23:36:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc3/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c 2008-05-22 21:21:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -398,7 +398,8 @@
return NULL;

/* Don't invoke OOM killer */
- gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY;
+ if (!(gfp & __GFP_WAIT))
+ gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY;

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
/* Why <=? Even when the mask is smaller than 4GB it is often

# -----

linux-2.6.26-gfp-no-oom.patch

diff -ruN linux-2.6.26-rc3.orig/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c linux-2.6.26-rc3/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
--- linux-2.6.26-rc3.orig/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c 2008-05-18 23:36:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc3/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c 2008-05-22 20:42:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@
return NULL;

/* Don't invoke OOM killer */
- gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY;
+ gfp |= __GFP_NO_OOM;

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
/* Why <=? Even when the mask is smaller than 4GB it is often
diff -ruN linux-2.6.26-rc3.orig/include/linux/gfp.h linux-2.6.26-rc3/include/linux/gfp.h
--- linux-2.6.26-rc3.orig/include/linux/gfp.h 2008-05-18 23:36:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc3/include/linux/gfp.h 2008-05-22 21:17:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
#define __GFP_REPEAT ((__force gfp_t)0x400u) /* See above */
#define __GFP_NOFAIL ((__force gfp_t)0x800u) /* See above */
#define __GFP_NORETRY ((__force gfp_t)0x1000u)/* See above */
+#define __GFP_NO_OOM ((__force gfp_t)0x2000u)/* Don't invoke oomkiller */
#define __GFP_COMP ((__force gfp_t)0x4000u)/* Add compound page metadata */
#define __GFP_ZERO ((__force gfp_t)0x8000u)/* Return zeroed page on success */
#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)0x10000u) /* Don't use emergency reserves */
diff -ruN linux-2.6.26-rc3.orig/mm/page_alloc.c linux-2.6.26-rc3/mm/page_alloc.c
--- linux-2.6.26-rc3.orig/mm/page_alloc.c 2008-05-18 23:36:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc3/mm/page_alloc.c 2008-05-22 17:39:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -1583,7 +1583,8 @@
zonelist, high_zoneidx, alloc_flags);
if (page)
goto got_pg;
- } else if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)) {
+ } else if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) &&
+ !(gfp_mask & (__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_OOM))) {
if (!try_set_zone_oom(zonelist, gfp_mask)) {
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
goto restart;



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