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From: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
	Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/vmalloc: add more comments to the adjust_va_to_fit_type()
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:54:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191016095438.12391-3-urezki@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191016095438.12391-1-urezki@gmail.com>

When fit type is NE_FIT_TYPE there is a need in one extra object.
Usually the "ne_fit_preload_node" per-CPU variable has it and
there is no need in GFP_NOWAIT allocation, but there are exceptions.

This commit just adds more explanations, as a result giving
answers on questions like when it can occur, how often, under
which conditions and what happens if GFP_NOWAIT gets failed.

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 593bf554518d..2290a0d270e4 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -969,6 +969,19 @@ adjust_va_to_fit_type(struct vmap_area *va,
 			 * There are a few exceptions though, as an example it is
 			 * a first allocation (early boot up) when we have "one"
 			 * big free space that has to be split.
+			 *
+			 * Also we can hit this path in case of regular "vmap"
+			 * allocations, if "this" current CPU was not preloaded.
+			 * See the comment in alloc_vmap_area() why. If so, then
+			 * GFP_NOWAIT is used instead to get an extra object for
+			 * split purpose. That is rare and most time does not
+			 * occur.
+			 *
+			 * What happens if an allocation gets failed. Basically,
+			 * an "overflow" path is triggered to purge lazily freed
+			 * areas to free some memory, then, the "retry" path is
+			 * triggered to repeat one more time. See more details
+			 * in alloc_vmap_area() function.
 			 */
 			lva = kmem_cache_alloc(vmap_area_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT);
 			if (!lva)
-- 
2.20.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-16  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-16  9:54 [PATCH v3 1/3] mm/vmalloc: remove preempt_disable/enable when do preloading Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2019-10-16  9:54 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mm/vmalloc: respect passed gfp_mask " Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2019-10-16 11:06   ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-18  9:40     ` Uladzislau Rezki
2019-10-19  1:58       ` Andrew Morton
2019-10-19 15:51         ` Uladzislau Rezki
2019-10-16  9:54 ` Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) [this message]
2019-10-16 11:07   ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/vmalloc: add more comments to the adjust_va_to_fit_type() Michal Hocko
2019-10-18  9:41     ` Uladzislau Rezki
2019-10-16 10:59 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] mm/vmalloc: remove preempt_disable/enable when do preloading Michal Hocko
2019-10-18  9:37   ` Uladzislau Rezki

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