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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 35 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 50eb50e100fd..0e81eb5f0aea 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1111,6 +1111,23 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_check_under_limit(struct mem_cgroup *mem) return false; } +/** + * mem_cgroup_check_margin - check if the memory cgroup allows charging + * @mem: memory cgroup to check + * @bytes: the number of bytes the caller intends to charge + * + * Returns a boolean value on whether @mem can be charged @bytes or + * whether this would exceed the limit. + */ +static bool mem_cgroup_check_margin(struct mem_cgroup *mem, unsigned long bytes) +{ + if (!res_counter_check_margin(&mem->res, bytes)) + return false; + if (do_swap_account && !res_counter_check_margin(&mem->memsw, bytes)) + return false; + return true; +} + static unsigned int get_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) { struct cgroup *cgrp = memcg->css.cgroup; @@ -1852,15 +1869,19 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *mem, gfp_t gfp_mask, return CHARGE_WOULDBLOCK; ret = mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(mem_over_limit, NULL, - gfp_mask, flags); + gfp_mask, flags); + if (mem_cgroup_check_margin(mem_over_limit, csize)) + return CHARGE_RETRY; /* - * try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() might not give us a full - * picture of reclaim. Some pages are reclaimed and might be - * moved to swap cache or just unmapped from the cgroup. - * Check the limit again to see if the reclaim reduced the - * current usage of the cgroup before giving up + * Even though the limit is exceeded at this point, reclaim + * may have been able to free some pages. Retry the charge + * before killing the task. + * + * Only for regular pages, though: huge pages are rather + * unlikely to succeed so close to the limit, and we fall back + * to regular pages anyway in case of failure. */ - if (ret || mem_cgroup_check_under_limit(mem_over_limit)) + if (csize == PAGE_SIZE && ret) return CHARGE_RETRY; /* |