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Commit 12b9f873 authored by Uladzislau Rezki's avatar Uladzislau Rezki Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/vmalloc: fallback to a single page allocator



Currently for order-0 pages we use a bulk-page allocator to get set of
pages.  From the other hand not allocating all pages is something that
might occur.  In that case we should fallbak to the single-page allocator
trying to get missing pages, because it is more permissive(direct reclaim,
etc).

Introduce a vm_area_alloc_pages() function where the described logic is
implemented.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210521130718.GA17882@pc638.lan
Signed-off-by: default avatarUladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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