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    Revert "mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask" · 356ff8a9
    David Rientjes authored
    This reverts commit 89c83fb5.
    
    This should have been done as part of 2f0799a0 ("mm, thp: restore
    node-local hugepage allocations").  The movement of the thp allocation
    policy from alloc_pages_vma() to alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask() was
    intended to only set __GFP_THISNODE for mempolicies that are not
    MPOL_BIND whereas the revert could set this regardless of mempolicy.
    
    While the check for MPOL_BIND between alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask()
    and alloc_pages_vma() was racy, that has since been removed since the
    revert.  What is left is the possibility to use __GFP_THISNODE in
    policy_node() when it is unexpected because the special handling for
    hugepages in alloc_pages_vma()  was removed as part of the consolidation.
    
    Secondly, prior to 89c83fb5, alloc_pages_vma() implemented a somewhat
    different policy for hugepage allocations, which were allocated through
    alloc_hugepage_vma().  For hugepage allocations, if the allocating
    process's node is in the set of allowed nodes, allocate with
    __GFP_THISNODE for that node (for MPOL_PREFERRED, use that node with
    __GFP_THISNODE instead).  This was changed for shmem_alloc_hugepage() to
    allow fallback to other nodes in 89c83fb5 as it did for new_page() in
    mm/mempolicy.c which is functionally different behavior and removes the
    requirement to only allocate hugepages locally.
    
    So this commit does a full revert of 89c83fb5 instead of the partial
    revert that was done in 2f0799a0.  The result is the same thp
    allocation policy for 4.20 that was in 4.19.
    
    Fixes: 89c83fb5 ("mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask")
    Fixes: 2f0799a0
    
     ("mm, thp: restore node-local hugepage allocations")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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