On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Minchan Kim wrote:
Then, How about this? [barrios@barrios-laptop linux-2.6]$ git diff diff --git a/kernel/power/suspend.c b/kernel/power/suspend.c index fdd4263..01aa9b5 100644 --- a/kernel/power/suspend.c +++ b/kernel/power/suspend.c @@ -297,9 +297,11 @@ int enter_state(suspend_state_t state) goto Finish; pr_debug("PM: Entering %s sleep\n", pm_states[state]); + oom_killer_disable(); pm_restrict_gfp_mask(); error = suspend_devices_and_enter(state); pm_restore_gfp_mask(); + oom_killer_enable(); Finish: pr_debug("PM: Finishing wakeup.\n"); diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 6e8ecb6..d8c31b7 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2177,9 +2177,9 @@ rebalance: * running out of options and have to consider going OOM */ if (!did_some_progress) { - if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)) { - if (oom_killer_disabled) + if (oom_killer_disabled) goto nopage; + if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)) { page = __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask, preferred_zone,
I'd prefer something like this. The whole 'gfp_allowed_flags' thing was designed to make GFP_KERNEL work during boot time where it's obviously safe to do that. I really don't think that's going to work suspend cleanly.
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