[SPARC64]: Don't kill the page allocator when growing a TSB.

Try only lightly on > 1 order allocations.

If a grow fails, we are under memory pressure, so do not try
to grow the TSB for this address space any more.

If a > 0 order TSB allocation fails on a new fork, retry using
a 0 order allocation.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/arch/sparc64/mm/tsb.c b/arch/sparc64/mm/tsb.c
index 7fbe1e0..3eb8670 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/sparc64/mm/tsb.c
+++ b/arch/sparc64/mm/tsb.c
@@ -216,7 +216,8 @@ static void setup_tsb_params(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long tsb_bytes)
  *
  * The TSB can be anywhere from 8K to 1MB in size, in increasing powers
  * of two.  The TSB must be aligned to it's size, so f.e. a 512K TSB
- * must be 512K aligned.
+ * must be 512K aligned.  It also must be physically contiguous, so we
+ * cannot use vmalloc().
  *
  * The idea here is to grow the TSB when the RSS of the process approaches
  * the number of entries that the current TSB can hold at once.  Currently,
@@ -228,6 +229,8 @@ void tsb_grow(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long rss)
        unsigned long size, old_size, flags;
        struct page *page;
        struct tsb *old_tsb, *new_tsb;
+       unsigned long order, new_rss_limit;
+       gfp_t gfp_flags;
 
        if (max_tsb_size > (PAGE_SIZE << MAX_ORDER))
                max_tsb_size = (PAGE_SIZE << MAX_ORDER);
@@ -240,9 +243,37 @@ void tsb_grow(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long rss)
                        break;
        }
 
-       page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, get_order(size));
-       if (unlikely(!page))
+       if (size == max_tsb_size)
+               new_rss_limit = ~0UL;
+       else
+               new_rss_limit = ((size / sizeof(struct tsb)) * 3) / 4;
+
+retry_page_alloc:
+       order = get_order(size);
+       gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL;
+       if (order > 1)
+               gfp_flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY;
+
+       page = alloc_pages(gfp_flags, order);
+       if (unlikely(!page)) {
+               /* Not being able to fork due to a high-order TSB
+                * allocation failure is very bad behavior.  Just back
+                * down to a 0-order allocation and force no TSB
+                * growing for this address space.
+                */
+               if (mm->context.tsb == NULL && order > 0) {
+                       size = PAGE_SIZE;
+                       new_rss_limit = ~0UL;
+                       goto retry_page_alloc;
+               }
+
+               /* If we failed on a TSB grow, we are under serious
+                * memory pressure so don't try to grow any more.
+                */
+               if (mm->context.tsb != NULL)
+                       mm->context.tsb_rss_limit = ~0UL;
                return;
+       }
 
        /* Mark all tags as invalid.  */
        new_tsb = page_address(page);
@@ -286,11 +317,7 @@ void tsb_grow(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long rss)
                return;
        }
 
-       if (size == max_tsb_size)
-               mm->context.tsb_rss_limit = ~0UL;
-       else
-               mm->context.tsb_rss_limit =
-                       ((size / sizeof(struct tsb)) * 3) / 4;
+       mm->context.tsb_rss_limit = new_rss_limit;
 
        if (old_tsb) {
                extern void copy_tsb(unsigned long old_tsb_base,