On Wed 25-02-15 12:41:07, David Rientjes wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c > > index 2d224bbdf8e8..c2ff40a30003 100644 > > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > > @@ -2363,7 +2363,8 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, > > goto out; > > } > > /* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */ > > - if (out_of_memory(ac->zonelist, gfp_mask, order, ac->nodemask, false)) > > + if (out_of_memory(ac->zonelist, gfp_mask, order, ac->nodemask, false) > > + || WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) > > *did_some_progress = 1; > > out: > > oom_zonelist_unlock(ac->zonelist, gfp_mask); > > Eek, not sure we actually need to play any games with did_some_progress, > it might be clearer just to do this We would loose the warning which _might_ be helpful and I also find this place better because it is close to the out_of_memory and this one has only one failure mode. So I would prefer to stick with this unless there are big objections. > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -2760,7 +2760,7 @@ retry: > &did_some_progress); > if (page) > goto got_pg; > - if (!did_some_progress) > + if (!did_some_progress && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) > goto nopage; > } > /* Wait for some write requests to complete then retry */ > > Either way you decide, feel free to add my > > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks! Andrew, should I repost or you can pick it up from this thread? Assuming you and others do not have objections of course. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>