From 82553a937f12352c26fe457510ebab3f512cd3fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:32:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] oom: invoke oom killer for __GFP_NOFAIL The oom killer must be invoked regardless of the order if the allocation is __GFP_NOFAIL, otherwise it will loop forever when reclaim fails to free some memory. Cc: Nick Piggin Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index c95a77c..c5fb017 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, goto out; /* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs */ - if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) + if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) goto out; /* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */ @@ -1781,11 +1781,13 @@ rebalance: goto got_pg; /* - * The OOM killer does not trigger for high-order allocations - * but if no progress is being made, there are no other - * options and retrying is unlikely to help + * The OOM killer does not trigger for high-order + * ~__GFP_NOFAIL allocations so if no progress is being + * made, there are no other options and retrying is + * unlikely to help. */ - if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) + if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER && + !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) goto nopage; goto restart; -- 2.7.4