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-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c4
-rw-r--r--mm/internal.h2
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c14
-rw-r--r--mm/sparse-vmemmap.c4
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c6
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c8
7 files changed, 24 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 1e516520433d..bc48ee783dd9 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ static struct page *alloc_fresh_huge_page_node(struct hstate *h, int nid)
page = __alloc_pages_node(nid,
htlb_alloc_mask(h)|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_THISNODE|
- __GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOWARN,
+ __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOWARN,
huge_page_order(h));
if (page) {
prep_new_huge_page(h, page, nid);
@@ -1525,7 +1525,7 @@ static struct page *__hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page(struct hstate *h,
{
int order = huge_page_order(h);
- gfp_mask |= __GFP_COMP|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOWARN;
+ gfp_mask |= __GFP_COMP|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOWARN;
if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
nid = numa_mem_id();
return __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_mask, order, nid, nmask);
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 0e4f558412fb..24d88f084705 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
* hints such as HIGHMEM usage.
*/
#define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
- __GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
+ __GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|\
__GFP_ATOMIC)
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,
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index a56c3989f773..c50b1a14d55e 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
if (node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY))
page = alloc_pages_node(
- node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_REPEAT,
+ node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL,
get_order(size));
else
page = alloc_pages(
- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_REPEAT,
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL,
get_order(size));
if (page)
return page_address(page);
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 26be6407abd7..6520f2d4a226 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap);
* Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back
* to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory.
*
- * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_REPEAT
+ * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
* is supported only for large (>32kB) allocations, and it should be used only if
* kmalloc is preferable to the vmalloc fallback, due to visible performance drawbacks.
*
@@ -367,11 +367,11 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN;
/*
- * We have to override __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_NORETRY for !costly
+ * We have to override __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL by __GFP_NORETRY for !costly
* requests because there is no other way to tell the allocator
* that we want to fail rather than retry endlessly.
*/
- if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_REPEAT) ||
+ if (!(kmalloc_flags & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) ||
(size <= PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NORETRY;
}
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 6016ab079e2b..8698c1c86c4d 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ fail:
* allocator with @gfp_mask flags. Map them into contiguous
* kernel virtual space, using a pagetable protection of @prot.
*
- * Reclaim modifiers in @gfp_mask - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_REPEAT
+ * Reclaim modifiers in @gfp_mask - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
* and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported
*
* Any use of gfp flags outside of GFP_KERNEL should be consulted
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index e9210f825219..a1af041930a6 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2506,18 +2506,18 @@ static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
return false;
/* Consider stopping depending on scan and reclaim activity */
- if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT) {
+ if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) {
/*
- * For __GFP_REPEAT allocations, stop reclaiming if the
+ * For __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations, stop reclaiming if the
* full LRU list has been scanned and we are still failing
* to reclaim pages. This full LRU scan is potentially
- * expensive but a __GFP_REPEAT caller really wants to succeed
+ * expensive but a __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL caller really wants to succeed
*/
if (!nr_reclaimed && !nr_scanned)
return false;
} else {
/*
- * For non-__GFP_REPEAT allocations which can presumably
+ * For non-__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations which can presumably
* fail without consequence, stop if we failed to reclaim
* any pages from the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX number of
* pages that were scanned. This will return to the