From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932101AbZEEAhv (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 20:37:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755934AbZEEAhm (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 20:37:42 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:37770 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755852AbZEEAhl (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 20:37:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=date:from:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id: references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-system-of-record; b=l9J2FbgNZeW6iW+z4AhaOy66qqrsQCrhSmeVTq9x6Bjxblo3+a3oclGvjhzCOucX4 mJUcjxUgvE0MBDS7Fd7bQ== Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 17:37:34 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" cc: Andrew Morton , Wu Fengguang , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, pavel@ucw.cz, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: Add __GFP_NO_OOM_KILL flag In-Reply-To: <200905050023.38064.rjw@sisk.pl> Message-ID: References: <200905042151.07953.rjw@sisk.pl> <200905050023.38064.rjw@sisk.pl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 5 May 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/power/process.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/power/process.c > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/power/process.c > @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ > */ > #define TIMEOUT (20 * HZ) > > +static bool tasks_frozen; > + > static inline int freezeable(struct task_struct * p) > { > if ((p == current) || > @@ -120,6 +122,10 @@ int freeze_processes(void) > Exit: > BUG_ON(in_atomic()); > printk("\n"); > + > + if (!error) > + tasks_frozen = true; > + > return error; > } > > @@ -145,6 +151,8 @@ static void thaw_tasks(bool nosig_only) > > void thaw_processes(void) > { > + tasks_frozen = false; > + > printk("Restarting tasks ... "); > thaw_tasks(true); > thaw_tasks(false); > @@ -152,3 +160,7 @@ void thaw_processes(void) > printk("done.\n"); > } > > +bool processes_are_frozen(void) > +{ > + return tasks_frozen; > +} > Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/freezer.h > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/freezer.h > +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/freezer.h > @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ extern int thaw_process(struct task_stru > extern void refrigerator(void); > extern int freeze_processes(void); > extern void thaw_processes(void); > +extern bool processes_are_frozen(void); > > static inline int try_to_freeze(void) > { > @@ -170,6 +171,7 @@ static inline int thaw_process(struct ta > static inline void refrigerator(void) {} > static inline int freeze_processes(void) { BUG(); return 0; } > static inline void thaw_processes(void) {} > +static inline bool processes_are_frozen(void) { return false; } > > static inline int try_to_freeze(void) { return 0; } > > Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ > #include > #include > #include > +#include > > #include > #include > @@ -1599,7 +1600,8 @@ nofail_alloc: > zonelist, high_zoneidx, alloc_flags); > if (page) > goto got_pg; > - } else if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)) { > + } else if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY) > + && !processes_are_frozen()) { > if (!try_set_zone_oom(zonelist, gfp_mask)) { > schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1); > goto restart; Cool, that looks like the semantics of __GFP_NO_OOM_KILL without requiring a new gfp flag. Thanks.