mm, thp: do not allow thp faults to avoid cpuset restrictions
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 23:08:24 +0000 (16:08 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 7 Aug 2014 21:52:37 +0000 (14:52 -0700)
commite7598322f418926b9aa3d814e2c88ae7995fa61a
tree39ccf4a791cbe906f8ee18126606d8734140af57
parentc05d1fe6c19f4df2f0b8cba151a8f0c53b87d878
mm, thp: do not allow thp faults to avoid cpuset restrictions

commit b104a35d32025ca740539db2808aa3385d0f30eb upstream.

The page allocator relies on __GFP_WAIT to determine if ALLOC_CPUSET
should be set in allocflags.  ALLOC_CPUSET controls if a page allocation
should be restricted only to the set of allowed cpuset mems.

Transparent hugepages clears __GFP_WAIT when defrag is disabled to prevent
the fault path from using memory compaction or direct reclaim.  Thus, it
is unfairly able to allocate outside of its cpuset mems restriction as a
side-effect.

This patch ensures that ALLOC_CPUSET is only cleared when the gfp mask is
truly GFP_ATOMIC by verifying it is also not a thp allocation.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Tested-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c