mm,ksm: add __GFP_HIGH to the allocation in alloc_stable_node()

According to Hugh's suggestion, alloc_stable_node() with GFP_KERNEL can
in rare cases cause a hung task warning.

At present, if alloc_stable_node() allocation fails, two break_cows may
want to allocate a couple of pages, and the issue will come up when free
memory is under pressure.

We fix it by adding __GFP_HIGH to GFP, to grant access to memory
reserves, increasing the likelihood of allocation success.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474354484-58233-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 5048083b60f2..9ae6011a41f8 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -299,7 +299,12 @@ static inline void free_rmap_item(struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
 
 static inline struct stable_node *alloc_stable_node(void)
 {
-        return kmem_cache_alloc(stable_node_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+        /*
+         * The allocation can take too long with GFP_KERNEL when memory is under
+         * pressure, which may lead to hung task warnings.  Adding __GFP_HIGH
+         * grants access to memory reserves, helping to avoid this problem.
+         */
+        return kmem_cache_alloc(stable_node_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGH);
 }
 
 static inline void free_stable_node(struct stable_node *stable_node)