[13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack

[Christoph Lameter]

Peter Zijlstra has recently demonstrated that we can have order 1 allocation
failures under memory pressure with small memory configurations. The
x86_64 stack has a size of 8k and thus requires a order 1 allocation.

This patch adds a virtual fallback capability for the stack. The system may
continue even in extreme situations and we may be able to increase the stack
size if necessary (see next patch).

Cc: ak@xxxxxxx
Cc: travis@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>

---
 include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h |   16 +++++-----------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h	2007-10-03 14:49:48.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h	2007-10-03 14:51:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -74,20 +74,14 @@ static inline struct thread_info *stack_
 
 /* thread information allocation */
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
-#define alloc_thread_info(tsk)					\
-    ({								\
-	struct thread_info *ret;				\
-								\
-	ret = ((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,THREAD_ORDER)); \
-	if (ret)						\
-		memset(ret, 0, THREAD_SIZE);			\
-	ret;							\
-    })
+#define THREAD_FLAGS (GFP_VFALLBACK | __GFP_ZERO)
 #else
-#define alloc_thread_info(tsk) \
-	((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL,THREAD_ORDER))
+#define THREAD_FLAGS GFP_VFALLBACK
 #endif
 
+#define alloc_thread_info(tsk) \
+	((struct thread_info *) __get_free_pages(THREAD_FLAGS, THREAD_ORDER))
+
 #define free_thread_info(ti) free_pages((unsigned long) (ti), THREAD_ORDER)
 
 #else /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */

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