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    mm/cma: add PF flag to force non cma alloc · d7fefcc8
    Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
    Patch series "mm/kvm/vfio/ppc64: Migrate compound pages out of CMA
    region", v8.
    
    ppc64 uses the CMA area for the allocation of guest page table (hash
    page table).  We won't be able to start guest if we fail to allocate
    hash page table.  We have observed hash table allocation failure because
    we failed to migrate pages out of CMA region because they were pinned.
    This happen when we are using VFIO.  VFIO on ppc64 pins the entire guest
    RAM.  If the guest RAM pages get allocated out of CMA region, we won't
    be able to migrate those pages.  The pages are also pinned for the
    lifetime of the guest.
    
    Currently we support migration of non-compound pages.  With THP and with
    the addition of hugetlb migration we can end up allocating compound
    pages from CMA region.  This patch series add support for migrating
    compound pages.
    
    This patch (of 4):
    
    Add PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA which make sure any allocation in that context is
    marked non-movable and hence cannot be satisfied by CMA region.
    
    This is useful with get_user_pages_longterm where we want to take a page
    pin by migrating pages from CMA region.  Marking the section
    PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA ensures that we avoid unnecessary page migration
    later.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114095438.32470-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
    Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
    Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
    Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
    Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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