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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2025-11-13 09:39:46 +0100
committerVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2025-11-13 17:10:38 +0100
commit3d2492401d3cdb8e9e1276c3af5f1cd0c8a2b076 (patch)
treec047748d24f4a15e9249818da2946ac15c601ed1 /mm/mempool.c
parentb77fc08e393b77883bcb71825cfd49e44da44022 (diff)
mempool: factor out a mempool_adjust_gfp helper
Add a helper to better isolate and document the gfp flags adjustments. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113084022.1255121-6-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempool.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mempool.c21
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index 5cf59779cc3d..a0718a35c34f 100644
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -380,6 +380,19 @@ out:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_resize);
+/*
+ * Adjust the gfp flags for mempool allocations, as we never want to dip into
+ * the global emergency reserves or retry in the page allocator.
+ *
+ * The first pass also doesn't want to go reclaim, but the next passes do, so
+ * return a separate subset for that first iteration.
+ */
+static inline gfp_t mempool_adjust_gfp(gfp_t *gfp_mask)
+{
+ *gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;
+ return *gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO);
+}
+
/**
* mempool_alloc - allocate an element from a memory pool
* @pool: pointer to the memory pool
@@ -398,20 +411,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_resize);
*/
void *mempool_alloc_noprof(mempool_t *pool, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
+ gfp_t gfp_temp = mempool_adjust_gfp(&gfp_mask);
void *element;
unsigned long flags;
wait_queue_entry_t wait;
- gfp_t gfp_temp;
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp_mask & __GFP_ZERO);
might_alloc(gfp_mask);
- gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOMEMALLOC; /* don't allocate emergency reserves */
- gfp_mask |= __GFP_NORETRY; /* don't loop in __alloc_pages */
- gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOWARN; /* failures are OK */
-
- gfp_temp = gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM|__GFP_IO);
-
repeat_alloc:
if (should_fail_ex(&fail_mempool_alloc, 1, FAULT_NOWARN)) {
pr_info("forcing mempool usage for %pS\n",