balloon_page_alloc() will use GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE in case we have CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION. This is now possible, as balloon pages are movable with CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION. Without CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION, GFP_HIGHUSER is used.
Note that apart from that, balloon_page_alloc() uses the following flags: __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN And current code used: GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC GFP_HIGHUSER/GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE include __GFP_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_HARDWALL | __GFP_HIGHMEM GFP_NOIO is __GFP_RECLAIM. With CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION, we essentially add: __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_HARDWALL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_MOVABLE Without CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION, we essentially add: __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_HARDWALL | __GFP_HIGHMEM I assume this is fine, as this is what all other balloon compaction users use. If it turns out to be a problem, we could add __GFP_MOVABLE manually if we have CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebni...@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatas...@soleen.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Arun KS <aru...@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c index 235fd7fe9df1..a6ec2bbb1f91 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c @@ -147,8 +147,7 @@ static long cmm_alloc_pages(long nr) break; } - page = alloc_page(GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY | - __GFP_NOMEMALLOC); + page = balloon_page_alloc(); if (!page) break; rc = plpar_page_set_loaned(page); -- 2.21.0