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Subject[PATCH 2/2] slab,slub: ignore __GFP_WAIT if we're booting or suspending
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

As explained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

Oh and btw, your patch alone doesn't fix powerpc, because it's missing
a whole bunch of GFP_KERNEL's in the arch code... You would have to
grep the entire kernel for things that check slab_is_available() and
even then you'll be missing some.

For example, slab_is_available() didn't always exist, and so in the
early days on powerpc, we used a mem_init_done global that is set form
mem_init() (not perfect but works in practice). And we still have code
using that to do the test.

Therefore, ignore __GFP_WAIT in the slab allocators if we're booting or
suspending.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
---
mm/slab.c | 7 +++++++
mm/slub.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index f46b65d..4b932e0 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2812,6 +2812,13 @@ static int cache_grow(struct kmem_cache *cachep,

offset *= cachep->colour_off;

+ /*
+ * Lets not wait if we're booting up or suspending even if the user
+ * asks for it.
+ */
+ if (system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING)
+ local_flags &= ~__GFP_WAIT;
+
if (local_flags & __GFP_WAIT)
local_irq_enable();

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 3964d3c..053ea3e 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1548,6 +1548,13 @@ new_slab:
goto load_freelist;
}

+ /*
+ * Lets not wait if we're booting up or suspending even if the user
+ * asks for it.
+ */
+ if (system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING)
+ gfpflags &= ~__GFP_WAIT;
+
if (gfpflags & __GFP_WAIT)
local_irq_enable();

--
1.6.0.4


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