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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 64b7d82a9b1a..6d30e914afb6 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, |