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| author | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2013-04-30 02:07:49 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-04-30 02:54:35 +0400 |
| commit | 055e4fd96e95b0eee0d92fd54a26be7f0d3bcad0 (patch) | |
| tree | 48f7e2d9a829daf6fef897e7d34dfa01f8cf83b3 /arch/cris/arch-v32 | |
| parent | 949f7ec5760b021da3cccc1eaeb0671270e4238f (diff) | |
| download | linux-055e4fd96e95b0eee0d92fd54a26be7f0d3bcad0.tar.xz | |
mm: try harder to allocate vmemmap blocks
Hot-adding memory on x86_64 normally requires huge page allocation.
When this is done to a VM guest, it's usually because the system is
already tight on memory, so the request tends to fail. Try to avoid
this by adding __GFP_REPEAT to the allocation flags.
Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/699913
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Bernhard Schmidt <Bernhard.Schmidt@lrz.de>
Tested-by: Bernhard Schmidt <Bernhard.Schmidt@lrz.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/cris/arch-v32')
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