Commit 183f6371aac2a5496a8ef2b0b0a68562652c3cdb

Authored by Mel Gorman
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent cfd19c5a9e

mm: ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK

The reserve is proportionally distributed over all !highmem zones in the
system.  So we need to allow an emergency allocation access to all zones.
In order to do that we need to break out of any mempolicy boundaries we
might have.

In my opinion that does not break mempolicies as those are user oriented
and not system oriented.  That is, system allocations are not guaranteed
to be within mempolicy boundaries.  For instance IRQs do not even have a
mempolicy.

So breaking out of mempolicy boundaries for 'rare' emergency allocations,
which are always system allocations (as opposed to user) is ok.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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2378 2378  
2379 2379 /* Allocate without watermarks if the context allows */
2380 2380 if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) {
  2381 + /*
  2382 + * Ignore mempolicies if ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS on the grounds
  2383 + * the allocation is high priority and these type of
  2384 + * allocations are system rather than user orientated
  2385 + */
  2386 + zonelist = node_zonelist(numa_node_id(), gfp_mask);
  2387 +
2381 2388 page = __alloc_pages_high_priority(gfp_mask, order,
2382 2389 zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask,
2383 2390 preferred_zone, migratetype);