mm/failslab.c: by default, do not fail allocations with direct reclaim only
When failslab was originally written, the intention of the "ignore-gfp-wait" flag default value ("N") was to fail GFP_ATOMIC allocations. Those were defined as (__GFP_HIGH), and the code would test for __GFP_WAIT (0x10u). However, since then, __GFP_WAIT was replaced by __GFP_RECLAIM (___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM|___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM), and GFP_ATOMIC is now defined as (__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM). This means that when the flag is false, almost no allocation ever fails (as even GFP_ATOMIC allocations contain ___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM). Restore the original intent of the code, by ignoring calls that directly reclaim only (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM), and thus, failing GFP_ATOMIC calls again by default. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520214514.81360-1-drinkcat@chromium.org Fixes: 71baba4b ("mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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