From: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>

__alloc_pages_direct_compact communicates potential back off by two
variables:
        - deferred_compaction tells that the compaction returned
          COMPACT_DEFERRED
        - contended_compaction is set when there is a contention on
          zone->lock resp. zone->lru_lock locks

__alloc_pages_slowpath then backs of for THP allocation requests to
prevent from long stalls. This is rather messy and it would be much
cleaner to return a single compact result value and hide all the nasty
details into __alloc_pages_direct_compact.

This patch shouldn't introduce any functional changes.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 06af8a757d52..350d13f3709b 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2944,29 +2944,21 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int 
order,
 static struct page *
 __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
                int alloc_flags, const struct alloc_context *ac,
-               enum migrate_mode mode, int *contended_compaction,
-               bool *deferred_compaction)
+               enum migrate_mode mode, enum compact_result *compact_result)
 {
-       enum compact_result compact_result;
        struct page *page;
+       int contended_compaction;
 
        if (!order)
                return NULL;
 
        current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
-       compact_result = try_to_compact_pages(gfp_mask, order, alloc_flags, ac,
-                                               mode, contended_compaction);
+       *compact_result = try_to_compact_pages(gfp_mask, order, alloc_flags, ac,
+                                               mode, &contended_compaction);
        current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
 
-       switch (compact_result) {
-       case COMPACT_DEFERRED:
-               *deferred_compaction = true;
-               /* fall-through */
-       case COMPACT_SKIPPED:
+       if (*compact_result <= COMPACT_INACTIVE)
                return NULL;
-       default:
-               break;
-       }
 
        /*
         * At least in one zone compaction wasn't deferred or skipped, so let's
@@ -2992,6 +2984,24 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned 
int order,
         */
        count_vm_event(COMPACTFAIL);
 
+       /*
+        * In all zones where compaction was attempted (and not
+        * deferred or skipped), lock contention has been detected.
+        * For THP allocation we do not want to disrupt the others
+        * so we fallback to base pages instead.
+        */
+       if (contended_compaction == COMPACT_CONTENDED_LOCK)
+               *compact_result = COMPACT_CONTENDED;
+
+       /*
+        * If compaction was aborted due to need_resched(), we do not
+        * want to further increase allocation latency, unless it is
+        * khugepaged trying to collapse.
+        */
+       if (contended_compaction == COMPACT_CONTENDED_SCHED
+               && !(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
+               *compact_result = COMPACT_CONTENDED;
+
        cond_resched();
 
        return NULL;
@@ -3000,8 +3010,7 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int 
order,
 static inline struct page *
 __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
                int alloc_flags, const struct alloc_context *ac,
-               enum migrate_mode mode, int *contended_compaction,
-               bool *deferred_compaction)
+               enum migrate_mode mode, enum compact_result *compact_result)
 {
        return NULL;
 }
@@ -3146,8 +3155,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
        unsigned long pages_reclaimed = 0;
        unsigned long did_some_progress;
        enum migrate_mode migration_mode = MIGRATE_ASYNC;
-       bool deferred_compaction = false;
-       int contended_compaction = COMPACT_CONTENDED_NONE;
+       enum compact_result compact_result;
 
        /*
         * In the slowpath, we sanity check order to avoid ever trying to
@@ -3245,8 +3253,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
         */
        page = __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_mask, order, alloc_flags, ac,
                                        migration_mode,
-                                       &contended_compaction,
-                                       &deferred_compaction);
+                                       &compact_result);
        if (page)
                goto got_pg;
 
@@ -3259,25 +3266,14 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int 
order,
                 * to heavily disrupt the system, so we fail the allocation
                 * instead of entering direct reclaim.
                 */
-               if (deferred_compaction)
-                       goto nopage;
-
-               /*
-                * In all zones where compaction was attempted (and not
-                * deferred or skipped), lock contention has been detected.
-                * For THP allocation we do not want to disrupt the others
-                * so we fallback to base pages instead.
-                */
-               if (contended_compaction == COMPACT_CONTENDED_LOCK)
+               if (compact_result == COMPACT_DEFERRED)
                        goto nopage;
 
                /*
-                * If compaction was aborted due to need_resched(), we do not
-                * want to further increase allocation latency, unless it is
-                * khugepaged trying to collapse.
+                * Compaction is contended so rather back off than cause
+                * excessive stalls.
                 */
-               if (contended_compaction == COMPACT_CONTENDED_SCHED
-                       && !(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
+               if(compact_result == COMPACT_CONTENDED)
                        goto nopage;
        }
 
@@ -3325,8 +3321,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
         */
        page = __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_mask, order, alloc_flags,
                                            ac, migration_mode,
-                                           &contended_compaction,
-                                           &deferred_compaction);
+                                           &compact_result);
        if (page)
                goto got_pg;
 nopage:
-- 
2.8.0.rc3

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