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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index ae052b5e3315..0f870ba43942 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1917,6 +1917,15 @@ retry: current->flags & PF_EXITING)) goto force; + /* + * Prevent unbounded recursion when reclaim operations need to + * allocate memory. This might exceed the limits temporarily, + * but we prefer facilitating memory reclaim and getting back + * under the limit over triggering OOM kills in these cases. + */ + if (unlikely(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)) + goto force; + if (unlikely(task_in_memcg_oom(current))) goto nomem; |