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Memoryless nodes: Fix GFP_THISNODE behavior

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GFP_THISNODE checks that the zone selected is within the pgdat (node) of the
first zone of a nodelist.  That only works if the node has memory.  A
memoryless node will have its first node on another pgdat (node).

GFP_THISNODE currently will return simply memory on the first pgdat.  Thus it
is returning memory on other nodes.  GFP_THISNODE should fail if there is no
local memory on a node.

Add a new set of zonelists for each node that only contain the nodes that
belong to the zones itself so that no fallback is possible.

Then modify gfp_type to pickup the right zone based on the presence of
__GFP_THISNODE.

Drop the existing GFP_THISNODE checks from the page_allocators hot path.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter
2007-10-16 01:25:37 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 633c0666b5
commit 523b945855
3 changed files with 48 additions and 11 deletions
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mm/page_alloc.c
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@@ -1191,9 +1191,6 @@ zonelist_scan:
!zlc_zone_worth_trying(zonelist, z, allowednodes))
continue;
zone = *z;
if (unlikely(NUMA_BUILD && (gfp_mask & __GFP_THISNODE) &&
zone->zone_pgdat != zonelist->zones[0]->zone_pgdat))
break;
if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_CPUSET) &&
!cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall(zone, gfp_mask))
goto try_next_zone;
@@ -1262,7 +1259,10 @@ restart:
z = zonelist->zones; /* the list of zones suitable for gfp_mask */
if (unlikely(*z == NULL)) {
/* Should this ever happen?? */
/*
* Happens if we have an empty zonelist as a result of
* GFP_THISNODE being used on a memoryless node
*/
return NULL;
}
@@ -1857,6 +1857,22 @@ static void build_zonelists_in_node_order(pg_data_t *pgdat, int node)
}
}
/*
* Build gfp_thisnode zonelists
*/
static void build_thisnode_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
{
enum zone_type i;
int j;
struct zonelist *zonelist;
for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
zonelist = pgdat->node_zonelists + MAX_NR_ZONES + i;
j = build_zonelists_node(pgdat, zonelist, 0, i);
zonelist->zones[j] = NULL;
}
}
/*
* Build zonelists ordered by zone and nodes within zones.
* This results in conserving DMA zone[s] until all Normal memory is
@@ -1961,7 +1977,7 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
int order = current_zonelist_order;
/* initialize zonelists */
for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
for (i = 0; i < MAX_ZONELISTS; i++) {
zonelist = pgdat->node_zonelists + i;
zonelist->zones[0] = NULL;
}
@@ -2006,6 +2022,8 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
/* calculate node order -- i.e., DMA last! */
build_zonelists_in_zone_order(pgdat, j);
}
build_thisnode_zonelists(pgdat);
}
/* Construct the zonelist performance cache - see further mmzone.h */