From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:32:58 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: oom: invoke oom killer for __GFP_NOFAIL
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82553a937f12352c26fe457510ebab3f512cd3fa;p=linux-beck.git

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 <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c95a77cd581b..c5fb017c9430 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;