mm/cma: change fallback behaviour for CMA freepage

Freepage with MIGRATE_CMA can be used only for MIGRATE_MOVABLE and they
should not be expanded to other migratetype buddy list to protect them
from unmovable/reclaimable allocation.  Implementing these requirements in
__rmqueue_fallback(), that is, finding largest possible block of freepage
has bad effect that high order freepage with MIGRATE_CMA are broken
continually although there are suitable order CMA freepage.  Reason is
that they are not be expanded to other migratetype buddy list and next
__rmqueue_fallback() invocation try to finds another largest block of
freepage and break it again.  So, MIGRATE_CMA fallback should be handled
separately.  This patch introduces __rmqueue_cma_fallback(), that just
wrapper of __rmqueue_smallest() and call it before __rmqueue_fallback() if
migratetype == MIGRATE_MOVABLE.

This results in unintended behaviour change that MIGRATE_CMA freepage is
always used first rather than other migratetype as movable allocation's
fallback.  But, as already mentioned above, MIGRATE_CMA can be used only
for MIGRATE_MOVABLE, so it is better to use MIGRATE_CMA freepage first as
much as possible.  Otherwise, we needlessly take up precious freepages
with other migratetype and increase chance of fragmentation.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 40e29429e7b0995bd5799bd6263b18d6ce8261cb..9ca626756927bd14dae2b8ed2a5877ad2a0ae2ad 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1032,11 +1032,9 @@ struct page *__rmqueue_smallest(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
 static int fallbacks[MIGRATE_TYPES][4] = {
        [MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE]   = { MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE, MIGRATE_MOVABLE,     MIGRATE_RESERVE },
        [MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE] = { MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE,   MIGRATE_MOVABLE,     MIGRATE_RESERVE },
+       [MIGRATE_MOVABLE]     = { MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE, MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE,   MIGRATE_RESERVE },
 #ifdef CONFIG_CMA
-       [MIGRATE_MOVABLE]     = { MIGRATE_CMA,         MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE, MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE, MIGRATE_RESERVE },
        [MIGRATE_CMA]         = { MIGRATE_RESERVE }, /* Never used */
-#else
-       [MIGRATE_MOVABLE]     = { MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE, MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE,   MIGRATE_RESERVE },
 #endif
        [MIGRATE_RESERVE]     = { MIGRATE_RESERVE }, /* Never used */
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION
@@ -1044,6 +1042,17 @@ static int fallbacks[MIGRATE_TYPES][4] = {
 #endif
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
+static struct page *__rmqueue_cma_fallback(struct zone *zone,
+                                       unsigned int order)
+{
+       return __rmqueue_smallest(zone, order, MIGRATE_CMA);
+}
+#else
+static inline struct page *__rmqueue_cma_fallback(struct zone *zone,
+                                       unsigned int order) { return NULL; }
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Move the free pages in a range to the free lists of the requested type.
  * Note that start_page and end_pages are not aligned on a pageblock
@@ -1195,19 +1204,8 @@ __rmqueue_fallback(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order, int start_migratetype)
                                        struct page, lru);
                        area->nr_free--;
 
-                       if (!is_migrate_cma(migratetype)) {
-                               try_to_steal_freepages(zone, page,
-                                                       start_migratetype,
-                                                       migratetype);
-                       } else {
-                               /*
-                                * When borrowing from MIGRATE_CMA, we need to
-                                * release the excess buddy pages to CMA
-                                * itself, and we do not try to steal extra
-                                * free pages.
-                                */
-                               buddy_type = migratetype;
-                       }
+                       try_to_steal_freepages(zone, page, start_migratetype,
+                                                               migratetype);
 
                        /* Remove the page from the freelists */
                        list_del(&page->lru);
@@ -1249,7 +1247,11 @@ retry_reserve:
        page = __rmqueue_smallest(zone, order, migratetype);
 
        if (unlikely(!page) && migratetype != MIGRATE_RESERVE) {
-               page = __rmqueue_fallback(zone, order, migratetype);
+               if (migratetype == MIGRATE_MOVABLE)
+                       page = __rmqueue_cma_fallback(zone, order);
+
+               if (!page)
+                       page = __rmqueue_fallback(zone, order, migratetype);
 
                /*
                 * Use MIGRATE_RESERVE rather than fail an allocation. goto