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oom: invoke oom killer for __GFP_NOFAIL

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The oom killer must be invoked regardless of the order if the allocation
is __GFP_NOFAIL, otherwise it will loop forever when reclaim fails to free
some memory.

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes 2009-06-16 15:32:58 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 4d8b9135c3
commit 82553a937f
1 changed files with 7 additions and 5 deletions
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mm/page_alloc.c
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@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
goto out;
/* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs */
if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
goto out;
/* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */
@ -1781,11 +1781,13 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
goto got_pg;
/*
* The OOM killer does not trigger for high-order allocations
* but if no progress is being made, there are no other
* options and retrying is unlikely to help
* The OOM killer does not trigger for high-order
* ~__GFP_NOFAIL allocations so if no progress is being
* made, there are no other options and retrying is
* unlikely to help.
*/
if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
goto nopage;
goto restart;