virtio: Do not drop __GFP_HIGH in alloc_indirect

b92b1b89a33c ("virtio: force vring descriptors to be allocated from
lowmem") tried to exclude highmem pages for descriptors so it cleared
__GFP_HIGHMEM from a given gfp mask. The patch also cleared __GFP_HIGH
which doesn't make much sense for this fix because __GFP_HIGH only
controls access to memory reserves and it doesn't have any influence
on the zone selection. Some of the call paths use GFP_ATOMIC and
dropping __GFP_HIGH will reduce their changes for success because the
lack of access to memory reserves.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 096b857e7b75abad526f487c84392d863c3c6b06..abdb341887f501d9f501e58069080e8006ec14f9 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static struct vring_desc *alloc_indirect(struct virtqueue *_vq,
         * otherwise virt_to_phys will give us bogus addresses in the
         * virtqueue.
         */
-       gfp &= ~(__GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_HIGH);
+       gfp &= ~__GFP_HIGHMEM;
 
        desc = kmalloc(total_sg * sizeof(struct vring_desc), gfp);
        if (!desc)