GFP_TEMPORARY was introduced by commit e12ba74d8f ("Group short-lived
and reclaimable kernel allocations") along with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE. It's
primary motivation was to allow users to tell that an allocation is
short lived and so the allocator can try to place such allocations close
together and prevent long term fragmentation. As much as this sounds
like a reasonable semantic it becomes much less clear when to use the
highlevel GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag. How long is temporary? Can the
context holding that memory sleep? Can it take locks? It seems there is
no good answer for those questions.
The current implementation of GFP_TEMPORARY is basically GFP_KERNEL |
__GFP_RECLAIMABLE which in itself is tricky because basically none of
the existing caller provide a way to reclaim the allocated memory. So
this is rather misleading and hard to evaluate for any benefits.
I have checked some random users and none of them has added the flag
with a specific justification. I suspect most of them just copied from
other existing users and others just thought it might be a good idea to
use without any measuring. This suggests that GFP_TEMPORARY just
motivates for cargo cult usage without any reasoning.
I believe that our gfp flags are quite complex already and especially
those with highlevel semantic should be clearly defined to prevent from
confusion and abuse. Therefore I propose dropping GFP_TEMPORARY and
replace all existing users to simply use GFP_KERNEL. Please note that
SLAB users with shrinkers will still get __GFP_RECLAIMABLE heuristic and
so they will be placed properly for memory fragmentation prevention.
I can see reasons we might want some gfp flag to reflect shorterm
allocations but I propose starting from a clear semantic definition and
only then add users with proper justification.
This was been brought up before LSF this year by Matthew [1] and it
turned out that GFP_TEMPORARY really doesn't have a clear semantic. It
seems to be a heuristic without any measured advantage for most (if not
all) its current users. The follow up discussion has revealed that
opinions on what might be temporary allocation differ a lot between
developers. So rather than trying to tweak existing users into a
semantic which they haven't expected I propose to simply remove the flag
and start from scratch if we really need a semantic for short term
allocations.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: drm/i915: fix up]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816144703.378d4f4d@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170728091904.14627-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A lot of the code in platforms/pseries is using non-machine initcalls.
That means if a kernel built with pseries support runs on another
platform, for example powernv, the initcalls will still run.
Most of these cases are OK, though sometimes only due to luck. Some were
having more effect:
* hcall_inst_init
- Checking FW_FEATURE_LPAR which is set on ps3 & celleb.
* mobility_sysfs_init
- created sysfs files unconditionally
- but no effect due to ENOSYS from rtas_ibm_suspend_me()
* apo_pm_init
- created sysfs, allows write
- nothing checks the value written to though
* alloc_dispatch_log_kmem_cache
- creating kmem_cache on non-pseries machines
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Traditionally it has been drmgr's responsibilty to update the device tree
through the /proc/ppc64/ofdt interface after a suspend/resume operation.
This patchset however has modified suspend/resume ops to preform an update
entirely in the kernel during the resume. Therefore, a mechanism is required
to expose that information to drmgr.
This patch adds a show function to the "hibernate" attribute that returns 1
if the kernel performs a device tree update after the resume and 0 otherwise.
This allows newer versions of drmgr to avoid doing a second unnecessary
device tree update.
Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
pHyp can change cache nodes for suspend/resume operation. Currently the
device tree is updated by drmgr in userspace after all non boot CPUs are
enabled. Hence, we do not modify the cache list based on the latest cache
nodes. Also we do not remove cache entries for the primary CPU.
This patch removes the cache list for the boot CPU, updates the device tree
before enabling nonboot CPUs and adds cache list for the boot cpu.
This patch also has the side effect that older versions of drmgr will
perform a second device tree update from userspace. While this is a
redundant waste of a couple cycles it is harmless since firmware returns the
same data for the subsequent update-nodes/properties rtas calls.
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Use this new function to make code more comprehensible, since we are
reinitialzing the completion, not initializing.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: linux-next resyncs]
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> (personally at LCE13)
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch brings online all threads which are present but not online
prior to migration/hibernation. After migration/hibernation those
threads are taken back offline.
During migration/hibernation all online CPUs must call H_JOIN, this is
required by the hypervisor. Without this patch, threads that are offline
(H_CEDE'd) will not be woken to make the H_JOIN call and the OS will be
deadlocked (all threads either JOIN'd or CEDE'd).
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
They get it via module.h (via device.h) but we want to clean that up.
When we do, we'll get things like:
ibmebus.c:314: error: 'S_IWUSR' undeclared here (not in a function)
vio.c:972: error: 'S_IWUSR' undeclared here (not in a function)
so add in the stat header it is using explicitly in advance.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
While at it, fix two checkpatch errors.
Several non-const struct instances constified by this patch were added after
the introduction of platform_suspend_ops in checkpatch.pl's list of "should
be const" structs (79404849e9).
Patch against mainline.
Inspired by hunks of the grsecurity patch, updated for newer kernels.
Signed-off-by: Lionel Debroux <lionel_debroux@yahoo.fr>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Enables support for HMC initiated partition hibernation. This is
a firmware assisted hibernation, since the firmware handles writing
the memory out to disk, along with other partition information,
so we just mimic suspend to ram.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
