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From: Em Sharnoff <sharnoff@neon.tech>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>,
	Oleg Vasilev <oleg@neon.tech>,
	Arthur Petukhovsky <arthur@neon.tech>,
	Stefan Radig <stefan@neon.tech>, Misha Sakhnov <misha@neon.tech>
Subject: [PATCH v5 4/4] x86/mm: Use GFP_KERNEL for alloc_low_pages() after boot
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:26:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51de7373-1b8d-426d-b720-ad9134c170bd@neon.tech> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4fe0984f-74dc-45fe-b2b6-bdd81ec15bac@neon.tech>

Currently it's GFP_ATOMIC. GFP_KERNEL seems more correct.

From Ingo M. [1]

> There's no real reason why it should be GFP_ATOMIC AFAICS, other than
> some historic inertia that nobody bothered to fix.

and previously Mike R. [2]

> The few callers that effectively use page allocator for the direct map
> updates are gart_iommu_init() and memory hotplug. Neither of them
> happen in an atomic context so there is no reason to use GFP_ATOMIC
> for these allocations.
>
> Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL to avoid using atomic reserves for
> allocations that do not require that.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aEE6_S2a-1tk1dtI@gmail.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211111110241.25968-5-rppt@kernel.org/

Signed-off-by: Em Sharnoff <sharnoff@neon.tech>
---
Changelog:
- v2: Add this patch
- v3: No changes
- v4: No changes
---
 arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index 474a7294016c..b37ac1d546af 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ __ref void *alloc_low_pages(unsigned int num)
 		unsigned int order;
 
 		order = get_order((unsigned long)num << PAGE_SHIFT);
-		return (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_ZERO, order);
+		return (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, order);
 	}
 
 	if ((pgt_buf_end + num) > pgt_buf_top || !can_use_brk_pgt) {
-- 
2.39.5



      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-07-11 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-11 16:22 [PATCH v5 0/4] x86/mm: Improve alloc handling of phys_*_init() Em Sharnoff
2025-07-11 16:24 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] x86/mm: Update mapped addresses in phys_{pmd,pud}_init() Em Sharnoff
2025-07-11 16:25 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] x86/mm: Allow error returns from phys_*_init() Em Sharnoff
2025-07-11 16:25 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] x86/mm: Handle alloc failure in phys_*_init() Em Sharnoff
2025-07-11 16:26 ` Em Sharnoff [this message]

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