On Fri, 25 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
> From: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> mem_cgroup_do_charge() was written before slab accounting, and expects
> three cases: being called for 1 page, being called for a stock of 32 pages,
> or being called for a hugepage. If we call for 2 pages (and several slabs
> used in process creation are such, at least with the debug options I had),
> it assumed it's being called for stock and just retried without reclaiming.
Slab pages are allocated up to order 3 (PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER). That is
8 pages.
> * unlikely to succeed so close to the limit, and we fall back
> * to regular pages anyway in case of failure.
> */
> - if (nr_pages == 1 && ret)
> + if (nr_pages <= (PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) && ret) {
> + cond_resched();
> return CHARGE_RETRY;
> + }
>
> /*
> * At task move, charge accounts can be doubly counted. So, it's
Ok. That looks correct.
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