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From: "Gregory Price (Meta)" <gourry@gourry.net>
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Subject: [PATCH v5 01/12] mm/page_alloc: reset can_retry_reserves when the slowpath restarts
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 22:13:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261101021340.2251928-2-gourry@gourry.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261101021340.2251928-1-gourry@gourry.net>

Commit 2c4c3e29897d ("mm/page_alloc: simplify __alloc_pages_slowpath()
flow") retries an allocation once with reserve_flags when the caller
becomes eligible for reserves, guarded by can_retry_reserves.

A restart after a cpuset update or a zonelist rebuild retries with
can_retry_reserves already set to false, so a caller that cannot
reclaim (GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_MEMALLOC), fails without trying reserves.

Reset can_retry_reserves on restart. Only a cpuset or zonelist change
restarts the slowpath, so the retry still runs at most once per change.

With a kprobe helping to make the race deterministic, an allocation
can be made to return NULL. With this patch the allocation will succeed.

Fixes: 2c4c3e29897d ("mm/page_alloc: simplify __alloc_pages_slowpath() flow")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index a8cac5e01066..f1048168c90c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4783,7 +4783,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	unsigned int zonelist_iter_cookie;
 	int reserve_flags;
 	bool compact_first = false;
-	bool can_retry_reserves = true;
+	bool can_retry_reserves;
 	unsigned long alloc_start_time = jiffies;
 
 	if (unlikely(nofail)) {
@@ -4805,6 +4805,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	no_progress_loops = 0;
 	compact_result = COMPACT_SKIPPED;
 	compact_priority = DEF_COMPACT_PRIORITY;
+	can_retry_reserves = true;
 	cpuset_mems_cookie = read_mems_allowed_begin();
 	zonelist_iter_cookie = zonelist_iter_begin();
 
-- 
2.56.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-11-01  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-01  2:13 [PATCH v5 0/12] mm: fix allocator races with memory hotplug Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-01  2:13 ` Gregory Price (Meta) [this message]
2026-11-01 19:52   ` [PATCH v5 01/12] mm/page_alloc: reset can_retry_reserves when the slowpath restarts Zi Yan
2026-11-01  2:13 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] mm/page_alloc: keep the pagesets of an empty zone Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-01 20:07   ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 14:57     ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-03 16:04       ` Zi Yan
2026-11-05  9:58         ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-05 16:10           ` Zi Yan
2026-11-01  2:13 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] mm, page_alloc: pass zone pointer to trace_reclaim_retry_zone Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-01 20:28   ` Zi Yan
2026-11-01  2:13 ` [PATCH v5 04/12] mm/page_alloc: detect zonelist rebuilds from memory hot-add Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-01 20:31   ` Zi Yan
2026-11-01  2:13 ` [PATCH v5 05/12] mm/mmzone: read the zoneref slot once in zonelist_zone() Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-03  2:54   ` Zi Yan
2026-11-01  2:13 ` [PATCH v5 06/12] mm/page_alloc: snapshot the preferred zone against shrink rebuilds Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-03  2:56   ` Zi Yan
2026-11-01  2:13 ` [PATCH v5 07/12] mm/mmzone: read each zoneref slot once when filtering by nodemask Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-03  3:01   ` Zi Yan
2026-11-03 15:00     ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-11-04  6:25       ` Gregory Price
2026-11-01  2:13 ` [PATCH v5 08/12] mm/page_alloc: retry allocations that raced with a zonelist rebuild Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-01  2:13 ` [PATCH v5 09/12] mm/hugetlb: retry the pool walk when the zonelist is rebuilt Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-01  2:13 ` [PATCH v5 10/12] mm/page_alloc: retry alloc_contig_pages() " Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-03  3:13   ` Zi Yan
2026-11-01  2:13 ` [PATCH v5 11/12] mm/mempolicy: read the zoneref slot once in mempolicy_slab_node() Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-03  3:14   ` Zi Yan
2026-11-01  2:13 ` [PATCH v5 12/12] mm/mmzone: remove zonelist_node_idx() Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-11-03  3:15   ` Zi Yan
2026-11-01 11:00 ` [PATCH v5 0/12] mm: fix allocator races with memory hotplug Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)

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