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    mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask · 89c83fb5
    Michal Hocko authored
    THP allocation mode is quite complex and it depends on the defrag mode.
    This complexity is hidden in alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask from a large
    part currently. The NUMA special casing (namely __GFP_THISNODE) is
    however independent and placed in alloc_pages_vma currently. This both
    adds an unnecessary branch to all vma based page allocation requests and
    it makes the code more complex unnecessarily as well. Not to mention
    that e.g. shmem THP used to do the node reclaiming unconditionally
    regardless of the defrag mode until recently. This was not only
    unexpected behavior but it was also hardly a good default behavior and I
    strongly suspect it was just a side effect of the code sharing more than
    a deliberate decision which suggests that such a layering is wrong.
    
    Get rid of the thp special casing from alloc_pages_vma and move the
    logic to alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask. __GFP_THISNODE is applied to the
    resulting gfp mask only when the direct reclaim is not requested and
    when there is no explicit numa binding to preserve the current logic.
    
    Please note that there's also a slight difference wrt MPOL_BIND now. The
    previous code would avoid using __GFP_THISNODE if the local node was
    outside of policy_nodemask(). After this patch __GFP_THISNODE is avoided
    for all MPOL_BIND policies. So there's a difference that if local node
    is actually allowed by the bind policy's nodemask, previously
    __GFP_THISNODE would be added, but now it won't be. From the behavior
    POV this is still correct because the policy nodemask is used.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925120326.24392-3-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
    Cc: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
    Cc: Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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