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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmalloc.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 634d8c782cca..c607307c657a 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -3797,6 +3797,8 @@ static void defer_vm_area_cleanup(struct vm_struct *area) * non-blocking (no __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) - memalloc_noreclaim_save() * GFP_NOFS - memalloc_nofs_save() * GFP_NOIO - memalloc_noio_save() + * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, __GFP_NORETRY - memalloc_noreclaim_save() + * to prevent OOMs * * Returns a flag cookie to pair with restore. */ @@ -3805,7 +3807,8 @@ memalloc_apply_gfp_scope(gfp_t gfp_mask) { unsigned int flags = 0; - if (!gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask)) + if (!gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask) || + (gfp_mask & (__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL | __GFP_NORETRY))) flags = memalloc_noreclaim_save(); else if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS | __GFP_IO)) == __GFP_IO) flags = memalloc_nofs_save(); @@ -3933,7 +3936,8 @@ fail: * GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT. Xfs uses __GFP_NOLOCKDEP. */ #define GFP_VMALLOC_SUPPORTED (GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_NOWAIT |\ - __GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NORETRY |\ + __GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_ZERO |\ + __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL |\ GFP_NOFS | GFP_NOIO | GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT |\ GFP_USER | __GFP_NOLOCKDEP) @@ -3964,12 +3968,15 @@ static gfp_t vmalloc_fix_flags(gfp_t flags) * virtual range with protection @prot. * * Supported GFP classes: %GFP_KERNEL, %GFP_ATOMIC, %GFP_NOWAIT, - * %GFP_NOFS and %GFP_NOIO. Zone modifiers are not supported. + * %__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, %__GFP_NORETRY, %GFP_NOFS and %GFP_NOIO. + * Zone modifiers are not supported. * Please note %GFP_ATOMIC and %GFP_NOWAIT are supported only * by __vmalloc(). * - * Retry modifiers: only %__GFP_NOFAIL is supported; %__GFP_NORETRY - * and %__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL are not supported. + * Retry modifiers: only %__GFP_NOFAIL is fully supported; + * %__GFP_NORETRY and %__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL are supported with limitation, + * i.e. page tables are allocated with NOWAIT semantic so they might fail + * under moderate memory pressure. * * %__GFP_NOWARN can be used to suppress failure messages. * |