It does not make sense to retry compaction when a fatal signal is pending. In the context of try_to_compact_pages(), indeed COMPACT_SKIPPED can be returned; albeit, not every zone, on the zone list, would be considered in the case a fatal signal is found to be pending. Yet, in should_compact_retry(), given the last known compaction result, each zone, on the zone list, can be considered/or checked (see compaction_zonelist_suitable()). For example, if a zone was found to succeed, then reclaim/compaction would be tried again (notwithstanding the above). This patch ensures that compaction is not needlessly retried irrespective of the last known compaction result e.g. if it was skipped, in the unlikely case a fatal signal is found pending. So, OOM is at least attempted. Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index aaa1655cf682..b317057ac186 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4252,6 +4252,9 @@ should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags, if (!order) return false; + if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) + return false; + if (compaction_made_progress(compact_result)) (*compaction_retries)++; -- 2.26.3
