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LinuxKPI: alloc_pages(): Don't reclaim on __GFP_NORETRY
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Authored by olce on Jul 11 2025, 6:52 AM.
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Summary

Pass VM_ALLOC_NORECLAIM to vm_page_alloc_noobj_contig() so that it
avoids reclaiming (currently, calling vm_reserv_reclaim_contig()).

According to Linux's documentation, GFP_NORETRY should not cause any
"disruptive reclaim". alloc_pages() is called a lot from the amdgpu DRM
driver via ttm_pool_alloc(), which tries to allocate pages of the
highest order first and fallback to lower order pages (as allocating
contiguous physical pages is in fact not a requirement). This process
relies on failing fast, as requested by
GFP_NORETRY. See also related
commit 718d1928f874 ("LinuxKPI: make linux_alloc_pages() honor
__GFP_NORETRY").

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