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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2013-09-12 15:13:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-12 15:38:01 -0700
commit519e52473ebe9db5cdef44670d5a97f1fd53d721 (patch)
tree635fce64ff3658250745b9c8dfebd47e981a5b16 /mm/filemap.c
parent3a13c4d761b4b979ba8767f42345fed3274991b0 (diff)
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mm: memcg: enable memcg OOM killer only for user faults
System calls and kernel faults (uaccess, gup) can handle an out of memory situation gracefully and just return -ENOMEM. Enable the memcg OOM killer only for user faults, where it's really the only option available. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/filemap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index e607728..e3b6fc8c 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1614,6 +1614,7 @@ int filemap_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
pgoff_t offset = vmf->pgoff;
struct page *page;
+ bool memcg_oom;
pgoff_t size;
int ret = 0;
@@ -1622,7 +1623,11 @@ int filemap_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
/*
- * Do we have something in the page cache already?
+ * Do we have something in the page cache already? Either
+ * way, try readahead, but disable the memcg OOM killer for it
+ * as readahead is optional and no errors are propagated up
+ * the fault stack. The OOM killer is enabled while trying to
+ * instantiate the faulting page individually below.
*/
page = find_get_page(mapping, offset);
if (likely(page) && !(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_TRIED)) {
@@ -1630,10 +1635,14 @@ int filemap_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
* We found the page, so try async readahead before
* waiting for the lock.
*/
+ memcg_oom = mem_cgroup_toggle_oom(false);
do_async_mmap_readahead(vma, ra, file, page, offset);
+ mem_cgroup_toggle_oom(memcg_oom);
} else if (!page) {
/* No page in the page cache at all */
+ memcg_oom = mem_cgroup_toggle_oom(false);
do_sync_mmap_readahead(vma, ra, file, offset);
+ mem_cgroup_toggle_oom(memcg_oom);
count_vm_event(PGMAJFAULT);
mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(vma->vm_mm, PGMAJFAULT);
ret = VM_FAULT_MAJOR;
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