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-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c35
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 0df3c08..f3e0c69 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3555,6 +3555,17 @@ retry_cpuset:
no_progress_loops = 0;
compact_priority = DEF_COMPACT_PRIORITY;
cpuset_mems_cookie = read_mems_allowed_begin();
+ /*
+ * We need to recalculate the starting point for the zonelist iterator
+ * because we might have used different nodemask in the fast path, or
+ * there was a cpuset modification and we are retrying - otherwise we
+ * could end up iterating over non-eligible zones endlessly.
+ */
+ ac->preferred_zoneref = first_zones_zonelist(ac->zonelist,
+ ac->high_zoneidx, ac->nodemask);
+ if (!ac->preferred_zoneref->zone)
+ goto nopage;
+
/*
* The fast path uses conservative alloc_flags to succeed only until
@@ -3715,6 +3726,13 @@ retry:
&compaction_retries))
goto retry;
+ /*
+ * It's possible we raced with cpuset update so the OOM would be
+ * premature (see below the nopage: label for full explanation).
+ */
+ if (read_mems_allowed_retry(cpuset_mems_cookie))
+ goto retry_cpuset;
+
/* Reclaim has failed us, start killing things */
page = __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_mask, order, ac, &did_some_progress);
if (page)
@@ -3728,10 +3746,11 @@ retry:
nopage:
/*
- * When updating a task's mems_allowed, it is possible to race with
- * parallel threads in such a way that an allocation can fail while
- * the mask is being updated. If a page allocation is about to fail,
- * check if the cpuset changed during allocation and if so, retry.
+ * When updating a task's mems_allowed or mempolicy nodemask, it is
+ * possible to race with parallel threads in such a way that our
+ * allocation can fail while the mask is being updated. If we are about
+ * to fail, check if the cpuset changed during allocation and if so,
+ * retry.
*/
if (read_mems_allowed_retry(cpuset_mems_cookie))
goto retry_cpuset;
@@ -3822,15 +3841,9 @@ no_zone:
/*
* Restore the original nodemask if it was potentially replaced with
* &cpuset_current_mems_allowed to optimize the fast-path attempt.
- * Also recalculate the starting point for the zonelist iterator or
- * we could end up iterating over non-eligible zones endlessly.
*/
- if (unlikely(ac.nodemask != nodemask)) {
+ if (unlikely(ac.nodemask != nodemask))
ac.nodemask = nodemask;
- ac.preferred_zoneref = first_zones_zonelist(ac.zonelist,
- ac.high_zoneidx, ac.nodemask);
- /* If we have NULL preferred zone, slowpath wll handle that */
- }
page = __alloc_pages_slowpath(alloc_mask, order, &ac);
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