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| author | Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> | 2005-05-01 08:58:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-01 08:58:36 -0700 |
| commit | b84a35be0285229b0a8a5e2e04d79360c5b75562 (patch) | |
| tree | 3ff63fde8534eb615b408d047b461015781f6a5b /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | 8e30f272a93ec9c1d5c305c5040dfaebc880499d (diff) | |
| download | linux-b84a35be0285229b0a8a5e2e04d79360c5b75562.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] mempool: NOMEMALLOC and NORETRY
Mempools have 2 problems.
The first is that mempool_alloc can possibly get stuck in __alloc_pages
when they should opt to fail, and take an element from their reserved pool.
The second is that it will happily eat emergency PF_MEMALLOC reserves
instead of going to their reserved pools.
Fix the first by passing __GFP_NORETRY in the allocation calls in
mempool_alloc. Fix the second by introducing a __GFP_MEMPOOL flag which
directs the page allocator not to allocate from the reserve pool.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 08e8627361a0..04a35b3d3262 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -799,14 +799,18 @@ __alloc_pages(unsigned int __nocast gfp_mask, unsigned int order, } /* This allocation should allow future memory freeing. */ - if (((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) || unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))) && !in_interrupt()) { - /* go through the zonelist yet again, ignoring mins */ - for (i = 0; (z = zones[i]) != NULL; i++) { - if (!cpuset_zone_allowed(z)) - continue; - page = buffered_rmqueue(z, order, gfp_mask); - if (page) - goto got_pg; + + if (((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) || unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))) + && !in_interrupt()) { + if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) { + /* go through the zonelist yet again, ignoring mins */ + for (i = 0; (z = zones[i]) != NULL; i++) { + if (!cpuset_zone_allowed(z)) + continue; + page = buffered_rmqueue(z, order, gfp_mask); + if (page) + goto got_pg; + } } goto nopage; } |