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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-07-13 12:38:49 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-07-13 12:38:49 -0700 |
commit | ad51271afc21a72479974713abb40ca4b96d1f6b (patch) | |
tree | e4281fa72a0bfbb08918e10546bdb6abe123f974 /mm/page_alloc.c | |
parent | 6735a1971a00a29a96aa3ea5dc08912bfee95c51 (diff) | |
parent | 3e8f399da490e6ac20a3cfd6aa404c9aa961a9a2 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
- various misc things
- kexec updates
- sysctl core updates
- scripts/gdb udpates
- checkpoint-restart updates
- ipc updates
- kernel/watchdog updates
- Kees's "rough equivalent to the glibc _FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 feature"
- "stackprotector: ascii armor the stack canary"
- more MM bits
- checkpatch updates
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (96 commits)
writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functions
ARM: samsung: usb-ohci: move inline before return type
video: fbdev: omap: move inline before return type
video: fbdev: intelfb: move inline before return type
USB: serial: safe_serial: move __inline__ before return type
drivers: tty: serial: move inline before return type
drivers: s390: move static and inline before return type
x86/efi: move asmlinkage before return type
sh: move inline before return type
MIPS: SMP: move asmlinkage before return type
m68k: coldfire: move inline before return type
ia64: sn: pci: move inline before type
ia64: move inline before return type
FRV: tlbflush: move asmlinkage before return type
CRIS: gpio: move inline before return type
ARM: HP Jornada 7XX: move inline before return type
ARM: KVM: move asmlinkage before type
checkpatch: improve the STORAGE_CLASS test
mm, migration: do not trigger OOM killer when migrating memory
drm/i915: use __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 64b7d82..6d30e91 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3284,6 +3284,14 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, /* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs */ if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) goto out; + /* + * We have already exhausted all our reclaim opportunities without any + * success so it is time to admit defeat. We will skip the OOM killer + * because it is very likely that the caller has a more reasonable + * fallback than shooting a random task. + */ + if (gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) + goto out; /* The OOM killer does not needlessly kill tasks for lowmem */ if (ac->high_zoneidx < ZONE_NORMAL) goto out; @@ -3413,7 +3421,7 @@ should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags, } /* - * !costly requests are much more important than __GFP_REPEAT + * !costly requests are much more important than __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL * costly ones because they are de facto nofail and invoke OOM * killer to move on while costly can fail and users are ready * to cope with that. 1/4 retries is rather arbitrary but we @@ -3920,9 +3928,9 @@ retry: /* * Do not retry costly high order allocations unless they are - * __GFP_REPEAT + * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL */ - if (costly_order && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT)) + if (costly_order && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL)) goto nopage; if (should_reclaim_retry(gfp_mask, order, ac, alloc_flags, |