Peter Zijlstra has recently demonstrated that we can have order 1 allocation
failures under memory pressure with small memory configurations. The
x86_64 stack has a size of 8k and thus requires a order 1 allocation.
This patch adds a virtual fallback capability for the stack. The system may
continue even in extreme situations and we may be able to increase the stack
size if necessary (see next patch).
Cc: ak@suse.de
Cc: travis@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
---
include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h | 16 +++++-----------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h 2007-10-03 14:49:48.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h 2007-10-03 14:51:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -74,20 +74,14 @@ static inline struct thread_info *stack_
/* thread information allocation */
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
-#define alloc_thread_info(tsk) \
- ({ \
- struct thread_info *ret; \
- \
- ret = ((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,THREAD_ORDER)); \
- if (ret) \
- memset(ret, 0, THREAD_SIZE); \
- ret; \
- })
+#define THREAD_FLAGS (GFP_VFALLBACK | __GFP_ZERO)
#else
-#define alloc_thread_info(tsk) \
- ((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,THREAD_ORDER))
+#define THREAD_FLAGS GFP_VFALLBACK
#endif
+#define alloc_thread_info(tsk) \
+ ((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(THREAD_FLAGS, THREAD_ORDER))
+
#define free_thread_info(ti) free_pages((unsigned long) (ti), THREAD_ORDER)
#else /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
--
-
