From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755956AbaFPTzM (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:55:12 -0400 Received: from zene.cmpxchg.org ([85.214.230.12]:36717 "EHLO zene.cmpxchg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755930AbaFPTzI (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:55:08 -0400 From: Johannes Weiner To: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko , Hugh Dickins , Tejun Heo , Vladimir Davydov , cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch 05/12] mm: memcontrol: reclaim at least once for __GFP_NORETRY Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:54:25 -0400 Message-Id: <1402948472-8175-6-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.0.0 In-Reply-To: <1402948472-8175-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> References: <1402948472-8175-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Currently, __GFP_NORETRY tries charging once and gives up before even trying to reclaim. Bring the behavior on par with the page allocator and reclaim at least once before giving up. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Michal Hocko --- mm/memcontrol.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 52550bbff1ef..9c646b9b56f4 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2613,13 +2613,13 @@ retry: if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)) goto nomem; - if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY) - goto nomem; - nr_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_reclaim(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, flags); if (mem_cgroup_margin(mem_over_limit) >= batch) goto retry; + + if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY) + goto nomem; /* * Even though the limit is exceeded at this point, reclaim * may have been able to free some pages. Retry the charge -- 2.0.0