Revision 0ee931c4e31a5efb134c76440405e9219f896e33 authored by Michal Hocko on 13 September 2017, 23:28:29 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 14 September 2017, 01:53:16 UTC
GFP_TEMPORARY was introduced by commit e12ba74d8ff3 ("Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations") along with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE. It's primary motivation was to allow users to tell that an allocation is short lived and so the allocator can try to place such allocations close together and prevent long term fragmentation. As much as this sounds like a reasonable semantic it becomes much less clear when to use the highlevel GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag. How long is temporary? Can the context holding that memory sleep? Can it take locks? It seems there is no good answer for those questions. The current implementation of GFP_TEMPORARY is basically GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RECLAIMABLE which in itself is tricky because basically none of the existing caller provide a way to reclaim the allocated memory. So this is rather misleading and hard to evaluate for any benefits. I have checked some random users and none of them has added the flag with a specific justification. I suspect most of them just copied from other existing users and others just thought it might be a good idea to use without any measuring. This suggests that GFP_TEMPORARY just motivates for cargo cult usage without any reasoning. I believe that our gfp flags are quite complex already and especially those with highlevel semantic should be clearly defined to prevent from confusion and abuse. Therefore I propose dropping GFP_TEMPORARY and replace all existing users to simply use GFP_KERNEL. Please note that SLAB users with shrinkers will still get __GFP_RECLAIMABLE heuristic and so they will be placed properly for memory fragmentation prevention. I can see reasons we might want some gfp flag to reflect shorterm allocations but I propose starting from a clear semantic definition and only then add users with proper justification. This was been brought up before LSF this year by Matthew [1] and it turned out that GFP_TEMPORARY really doesn't have a clear semantic. It seems to be a heuristic without any measured advantage for most (if not all) its current users. The follow up discussion has revealed that opinions on what might be temporary allocation differ a lot between developers. So rather than trying to tweak existing users into a semantic which they haven't expected I propose to simply remove the flag and start from scratch if we really need a semantic for short term allocations. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: drm/i915: fix up] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816144703.378d4f4d@canb.auug.org.au Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170728091904.14627-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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setlocalversion
#!/bin/sh
#
# This scripts adds local version information from the version
# control systems git, mercurial (hg) and subversion (svn).
#
# If something goes wrong, send a mail the kernel build mailinglist
# (see MAINTAINERS) and CC Nico Schottelius
# <nico-linuxsetlocalversion -at- schottelius.org>.
#
#
usage() {
echo "Usage: $0 [--save-scmversion] [srctree]" >&2
exit 1
}
scm_only=false
srctree=.
if test "$1" = "--save-scmversion"; then
scm_only=true
shift
fi
if test $# -gt 0; then
srctree=$1
shift
fi
if test $# -gt 0 -o ! -d "$srctree"; then
usage
fi
scm_version()
{
local short
short=false
cd "$srctree"
if test -e .scmversion; then
cat .scmversion
return
fi
if test "$1" = "--short"; then
short=true
fi
# Check for git and a git repo.
if test -z "$(git rev-parse --show-cdup 2>/dev/null)" &&
head=`git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD 2>/dev/null`; then
# If we are at a tagged commit (like "v2.6.30-rc6"), we ignore
# it, because this version is defined in the top level Makefile.
if [ -z "`git describe --exact-match 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
# If only the short version is requested, don't bother
# running further git commands
if $short; then
echo "+"
return
fi
# If we are past a tagged commit (like
# "v2.6.30-rc5-302-g72357d5"), we pretty print it.
if atag="`git describe 2>/dev/null`"; then
echo "$atag" | awk -F- '{printf("-%05d-%s", $(NF-1),$(NF))}'
# If we don't have a tag at all we print -g{commitish}.
else
printf '%s%s' -g $head
fi
fi
# Is this git on svn?
if git config --get svn-remote.svn.url >/dev/null; then
printf -- '-svn%s' "`git svn find-rev $head`"
fi
# Check for uncommitted changes
if git diff-index --name-only HEAD | grep -qv "^scripts/package"; then
printf '%s' -dirty
fi
# All done with git
return
fi
# Check for mercurial and a mercurial repo.
if test -d .hg && hgid=`hg id 2>/dev/null`; then
# Do we have an tagged version? If so, latesttagdistance == 1
if [ "`hg log -r . --template '{latesttagdistance}'`" == "1" ]; then
id=`hg log -r . --template '{latesttag}'`
printf '%s%s' -hg "$id"
else
tag=`printf '%s' "$hgid" | cut -d' ' -f2`
if [ -z "$tag" -o "$tag" = tip ]; then
id=`printf '%s' "$hgid" | sed 's/[+ ].*//'`
printf '%s%s' -hg "$id"
fi
fi
# Are there uncommitted changes?
# These are represented by + after the changeset id.
case "$hgid" in
*+|*+\ *) printf '%s' -dirty ;;
esac
# All done with mercurial
return
fi
# Check for svn and a svn repo.
if rev=`LANG= LC_ALL= LC_MESSAGES=C svn info 2>/dev/null | grep '^Last Changed Rev'`; then
rev=`echo $rev | awk '{print $NF}'`
printf -- '-svn%s' "$rev"
# All done with svn
return
fi
}
collect_files()
{
local file res
for file; do
case "$file" in
*\~*)
continue
;;
esac
if test -e "$file"; then
res="$res$(cat "$file")"
fi
done
echo "$res"
}
if $scm_only; then
if test ! -e .scmversion; then
res=$(scm_version)
echo "$res" >.scmversion
fi
exit
fi
if test -e include/config/auto.conf; then
. include/config/auto.conf
else
echo "Error: kernelrelease not valid - run 'make prepare' to update it" >&2
exit 1
fi
# localversion* files in the build and source directory
res="$(collect_files localversion*)"
if test ! "$srctree" -ef .; then
res="$res$(collect_files "$srctree"/localversion*)"
fi
# CONFIG_LOCALVERSION and LOCALVERSION (if set)
res="${res}${CONFIG_LOCALVERSION}${LOCALVERSION}"
# scm version string if not at a tagged commit
if test "$CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO" = "y"; then
# full scm version string
res="$res$(scm_version)"
else
# append a plus sign if the repository is not in a clean
# annotated or signed tagged state (as git describe only
# looks at signed or annotated tags - git tag -a/-s) and
# LOCALVERSION= is not specified
if test "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set"; then
scm=$(scm_version --short)
res="$res${scm:++}"
fi
fi
echo "$res"
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