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mm: make slab and vmalloc allocators __GFP_NOLOCKDEP aware
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sl?b and vmalloc allocators reduce the given gfp mask for their internal
needs.  For that they use GFP_RECLAIM_MASK to preserve the reclaim
behavior and constrains.

__GFP_NOLOCKDEP is not a part of that mask because it doesn't really
control the reclaim behavior strictly speaking.  On the other hand it
tells the underlying page allocator to disable reclaim recursion
detection so arguably it should be part of the mask.

Having __GFP_NOLOCKDEP in the mask will not alter the behavior in any
form so this change is safe pretty much by definition.  It also adds a
support for this flag to SL?B and vmalloc allocators which will in turn
allow its use to kvmalloc as well.  A lack of the support has been
noticed recently in

  http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211119225435.GZ449541@dread.disaster.area

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YZ9XtLY4AEjVuiEI@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Hocko authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jan 15, 2022
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#define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|\
__GFP_ATOMIC)
__GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOLOCKDEP)

/* The GFP flags allowed during early boot */
#define GFP_BOOT_MASK (__GFP_BITS_MASK & ~(__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS))
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