ext4: use non-movable memory for superblock readahead
authorRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:14:11 +0000 (16:14 -0800)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 16 Apr 2020 03:58:48 +0000 (23:58 -0400)
commitd87f639258a6a5980183f11876c884931ad93da2
treef840887fbe136455b2eb47710c222018352f566c
parentc2a559bc0e7ed5a715ad6b947025b33cb7c05ea7
ext4: use non-movable memory for superblock readahead

Since commit a8ac900b8163 ("ext4: use non-movable memory for the
superblock") buffers for ext4 superblock were allocated using
the sb_bread_unmovable() helper which allocated buffer heads
out of non-movable memory blocks. It was necessarily to not block
page migrations and do not cause cma allocation failures.

However commit 85c8f176a611 ("ext4: preload block group descriptors")
broke this by introducing pre-reading of the ext4 superblock.
The problem is that __breadahead() is using __getblk() underneath,
which allocates buffer heads out of movable memory.

It resulted in page migration failures I've seen on a machine
with an ext4 partition and a preallocated cma area.

Fix this by introducing sb_breadahead_unmovable() and
__breadahead_gfp() helpers which use non-movable memory for buffer
head allocations and use them for the ext4 superblock readahead.

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Fixes: 85c8f176a611 ("ext4: preload block group descriptors")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200229001411.128010-1-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/buffer.c
fs/ext4/inode.c
fs/ext4/super.c
include/linux/buffer_head.h