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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] mm: update alloc_flags after oom killer has been called
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:33:08 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0907151332320.24006@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)

It is possible for the oom killer to select current as the task to kill.  
When this happens, alloc_flags needs to be updated accordingly to set 
ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS so the subsequent allocation attempt may use memory 
reserves as the result of its thread having TIF_MEMDIE set if the 
allocation is not __GFP_NOMEMALLOC.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
---
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1756,6 +1756,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 
 	wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx);
 
+restart:
 	/*
 	 * OK, we're below the kswapd watermark and have kicked background
 	 * reclaim. Now things get more complex, so set up alloc_flags according
@@ -1763,7 +1764,6 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	 */
 	alloc_flags = gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_mask);
 
-restart:
 	/* This is the last chance, in general, before the goto nopage. */
 	page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, nodemask, order, zonelist,
 			high_zoneidx, alloc_flags & ~ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS,

             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-15 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-15 20:33 David Rientjes [this message]
2009-07-16  7:39 ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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