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mm: clarify GFP_ATOMIC/GFP_NOWAIT doc-comment
The current description of contexts where it's invalid to make GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_NOWAIT calls is rather vague. Replace this with a direct description of the actual contexts of concern and refer to the RT docs where this is explained more discursively. While rejigging this prose, also move the documentation of GFP_NOWAIT to the GFP_NOWAIT section. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <[email protected]> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <[email protected]> Cc: Liam Howlett <[email protected]> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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* %GFP_ATOMIC users can not sleep and need the allocation to succeed. A lower
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* watermark is applied to allow access to "atomic reserves".
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* The current implementation doesn't support NMI and few other strict
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* non-preemptive contexts (e.g. raw_spin_lock). The same applies to %GFP_NOWAIT.
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* The current implementation doesn't support NMI, nor contexts that disable
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* preemption under PREEMPT_RT. This includes raw_spin_lock() and plain
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* preempt_disable() - see "Memory allocation" in
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* Documentation/core-api/real-time/differences.rst for more info.
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* %GFP_KERNEL is typical for kernel-internal allocations. The caller requires
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* %ZONE_NORMAL or a lower zone for direct access but can direct reclaim.
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@@ -321,6 +323,7 @@ enum {
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* %GFP_NOWAIT is for kernel allocations that should not stall for direct
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* reclaim, start physical IO or use any filesystem callback. It is very
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* likely to fail to allocate memory, even for very small allocations.
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* The same restrictions on calling contexts apply as for %GFP_ATOMIC.
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*
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* %GFP_NOIO will use direct reclaim to discard clean pages or slab pages
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* that do not require the starting of any physical IO.
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