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mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: provide stronger vmemmap allocation guarantees
HugeTLB pages have a struct page optimizations where struct pages for tail pages are freed. However, when HugeTLB pages are destroyed, the memory for struct pages (vmemmap) needs to be allocated again. Currently, __GFP_NORETRY flag is used to allocate the memory for vmemmap, but given that this flag makes very little effort to actually reclaim memory the returning of huge pages back to the system can be problem. Lets use __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL instead. This flag is also performs graceful reclaim without causing ooms, but at least it may perform a few retries, and will fail only when there is genuinely little amount of unused memory in the system. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230412195939.1242462-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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