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    mm, memcg: sync allocation and memcg charge gfp flags for THP · 3b363692
    Michal Hocko authored
    
    
    memcg currently uses hardcoded GFP_TRANSHUGE gfp flags for all THP
    charges.  THP allocations, however, might be using different flags
    depending on /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/{,khugepaged/}defrag and
    the current allocation context.
    
    The primary difference is that defrag configured to "madvise" value will
    clear __GFP_WAIT flag from the core gfp mask to make the allocation
    lighter for all mappings which are not backed by VM_HUGEPAGE vmas.  If
    memcg charge path ignores this fact we will get light allocation but the a
    potential memcg reclaim would kill the whole point of the configuration.
    
    Fix the mismatch by providing the same gfp mask used for the allocation to
    the charge functions.  This is quite easy for all paths except for
    hugepaged kernel thread with !CONFIG_NUMA which is doing a pre-allocation
    long before the allocated page is used in collapse_huge_page via
    khugepaged_alloc_page.  To prevent from cluttering the whole code path
    from khugepaged_do_scan we simply return the current flags as per
    khugepaged_defrag() value which might have changed since the
    preallocation.  If somebody changed the value of the knob we would charge
    differently but this shouldn't happen often and it is definitely not
    critical because it would only lead to a reduced success rate of one-off
    THP promotion.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix weird code layout while we're there]
    [rientjes@google.com: clean up around alloc_hugepage_gfpmask()]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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