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Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:12:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from google.com ([2620:15c:211:201:9dd5:b47b:bb84:dede]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b14sm3091649pju.14.2021.01.26.11.12.16 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:12:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:12:14 -0800 From: Minchan Kim To: Michal Hocko Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm , LKML , hyesoo.yu@samsung.com, david@redhat.com, surenb@google.com, pullip.cho@samsung.com, joaodias@google.com, hridya@google.com, john.stultz@linaro.org, sumit.semwal@linaro.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, robh+dt@kernel.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm: cma: introduce gfp flag in cma_alloc instead of no_warn Message-ID: References: <20210121175502.274391-1-minchan@kernel.org> <20210121175502.274391-2-minchan@kernel.org> <20210125130701.GF827@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20210126073808.GZ827@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210126073808.GZ827@dhcp22.suse.cz> X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 08:38:08AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 25-01-21 11:42:34, Minchan Kim wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 02:07:01PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > On Thu 21-01-21 09:54:59, Minchan Kim wrote: > > > > The upcoming patch will introduce __GFP_NORETRY semantic > > > > in alloc_contig_range which is a failfast mode of the API. > > > > Instead of adding a additional parameter for gfp, replace > > > > no_warn with gfp flag. > > > > > > > > To keep old behaviors, it follows the rule below. > > > > > > > > no_warn gfp_flags > > > > > > > > false GFP_KERNEL > > > > true GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN > > > > gfp & __GFP_NOWARN GFP_KERNEL | (gfp & __GFP_NOWARN) > > > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan > > > > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim > > > [...] > > > > diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c > > > > index 0ba69cd16aeb..d50627686fec 100644 > > > > --- a/mm/cma.c > > > > +++ b/mm/cma.c > > > > @@ -419,13 +419,13 @@ static inline void cma_debug_show_areas(struct cma *cma) { } > > > > * @cma: Contiguous memory region for which the allocation is performed. > > > > * @count: Requested number of pages. > > > > * @align: Requested alignment of pages (in PAGE_SIZE order). > > > > - * @no_warn: Avoid printing message about failed allocation > > > > + * @gfp_mask: GFP mask to use during the cma allocation. > > > > > > Call out supported gfp flags explicitly. Have a look at kvmalloc_node > > > for a guidance. > > > > How about this? > > > > > > diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c > > index d50627686fec..b94727b694d6 100644 > > --- a/mm/cma.c > > +++ b/mm/cma.c > > @@ -423,6 +423,10 @@ static inline void cma_debug_show_areas(struct cma *cma) { } > > * > > * This function allocates part of contiguous memory on specific > > * contiguous memory area. > > + * > > + * For gfp_mask, GFP_KERNEL and __GFP_NORETRY are supported. __GFP_NORETRY > > + * will avoid costly functions(e.g., waiting on page_writeback and locking) > > + * at current implementaion during the page migration. > > rather than explicitly mentioning what the flag implies I think it would > be more useful to state the intended usecase. See how kvmalloc_node says > "__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is supported, and it should be used only if kmalloc is > preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance > drawbacks. > __GFP_NOWARN is also supported to suppress allocation failure messages." > > This would help people not familiar with internals to see whether this > flag is a good fit for them. > > In this case I woul go with > " > @flags: gfp mask. Must be compatible (superset) with GFP_KERNEL. > [...] > Reclaim modifiers (__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, __GFP_NOFAIL) are not supported. > __GFP_NORETRY is supported, and it should be used for opportunistic > allocation attempts that should rather fail quickly when the caller has > a fallback strategy. > " > > Obviously for this patch you will go with a simple statement that > Reclaim modifiers are not supported at all. After more discussion for gfp_flags in thread of next patch, let me changes a bit more based on it. Thanks for the suggestion, Michal.