Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc3' into x86/memblock

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c
	mm/memblock.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, update to latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f2cd7450fa76..768ea486df58 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1739,7 +1739,7 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	struct page *page;
 
 	/* Acquire the OOM killer lock for the zones in zonelist */
-	if (!try_set_zone_oom(zonelist, gfp_mask)) {
+	if (!try_set_zonelist_oom(zonelist, gfp_mask)) {
 		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
 		return NULL;
 	}
@@ -1760,6 +1760,9 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 		/* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs */
 		if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
 			goto out;
+		/* The OOM killer does not needlessly kill tasks for lowmem */
+		if (high_zoneidx < ZONE_NORMAL)
+			goto out;
 		/*
 		 * GFP_THISNODE contains __GFP_NORETRY and we never hit this.
 		 * Sanity check for bare calls of __GFP_THISNODE, not real OOM.
@@ -2053,15 +2056,23 @@ rebalance:
 			if (page)
 				goto got_pg;
 
-			/*
-			 * The OOM killer does not trigger for high-order
-			 * ~__GFP_NOFAIL allocations so if no progress is being
-			 * made, there are no other options and retrying is
-			 * unlikely to help.
-			 */
-			if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
-						!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
-				goto nopage;
+			if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) {
+				/*
+				 * The oom killer is not called for high-order
+				 * allocations that may fail, so if no progress
+				 * is being made, there are no other options and
+				 * retrying is unlikely to help.
+				 */
+				if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
+					goto nopage;
+				/*
+				 * The oom killer is not called for lowmem
+				 * allocations to prevent needlessly killing
+				 * innocent tasks.
+				 */
+				if (high_zoneidx < ZONE_NORMAL)
+					goto nopage;
+			}
 
 			goto restart;
 		}
@@ -4105,8 +4116,6 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
 		zone_seqlock_init(zone);
 		zone->zone_pgdat = pgdat;
 
-		zone->prev_priority = DEF_PRIORITY;
-
 		zone_pcp_init(zone);
 		for_each_lru(l) {
 			INIT_LIST_HEAD(&zone->lru[l].list);