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
next prev parent 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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