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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: avoid livelock on !__GFP_FS allocations
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Colin Cross wrote:

> > gfp_allowed_mask is initialized to GFP_BOOT_MASK to start so that __GFP_FS
> > is never allowed before the slab allocator is completely initialized, so
> > you've now implicitly made all early boot allocations to be __GFP_NORETRY
> > even though they may not pass it.
>
> Only before interrupts are enabled, and then isn't it vulnerable to
> the same livelock? Interrupts are off, single cpu, kswapd can't run.
> If an allocation ever failed, which seems unlikely, why would retrying
> help?
>

If you want to claim gfp_allowed_mask as a pm-only entity, then I see no
problem with this approach. However, if gfp_allowed_mask would be allowed
to temporarily change after init for another purpose then it would make
sense to retry because another allocation with __GFP_FS on another cpu or
kswapd could start making progress could allow for future memory freeing.

The suggestion to add a hook directly into a pm-interface was so that we
could isolate it only to suspend and, to me, is the most maintainable
solution.


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