The patch titled
Subject: mm: memcontrol: reclaim at least once for __GFP_NORETRY
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-memcontrol-reclaim-at-least-once-for-__gfp_noretry.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-reclaim-at-least-once-for-__gfp_noretry.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-reclaim-at-least-once-for-__gfp_noretry.patch
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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: memcontrol: reclaim at least once for __GFP_NORETRY
Currently, __GFP_NORETRY tries charging once and gives up before even
trying to reclaim. Bring the behavior on par with the page allocator and
reclaim at least once before giving up.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-reclaim-at-least-once-for-__gfp_noretry mm/memcontrol.c
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-reclaim-at-least-once-for-__gfp_noretry
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2613,13 +2613,13 @@ retry:
if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT))
goto nomem;
- if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)
- goto nomem;
-
nr_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_reclaim(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, flags);
if (mem_cgroup_margin(mem_over_limit) >= batch)
goto retry;
+
+ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)
+ goto nomem;
/*
* Even though the limit is exceeded at this point, reclaim
* may have been able to free some pages. Retry the charge
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are
vmalloc-use-rcu-list-iterator-to-reduce-vmap_area_lock-contention.patch
memcg-cleanup-memcg_cache_params-refcnt-usage.patch
memcg-destroy-kmem-caches-when-last-slab-is-freed.patch
memcg-mark-caches-that-belong-to-offline-memcgs-as-dead.patch
slub-dont-fail-kmem_cache_shrink-if-slab-placement-optimization-fails.patch
slub-make-slab_free-non-preemptable.patch
memcg-wait-for-kfrees-to-finish-before-destroying-cache.patch
slub-make-dead-memcg-caches-discard-free-slabs-immediately.patch
slab-do-not-keep-free-objects-slabs-on-dead-memcg-caches.patch
mm-memcontrol-fold-mem_cgroup_do_charge.patch
mm-memcontrol-rearrange-charging-fast-path.patch
mm-memcontrol-reclaim-at-least-once-for-__gfp_noretry.patch
mm-huge_memory-use-gfp_transhuge-when-charging-huge-pages.patch
mm-memcontrol-retry-reclaim-for-oom-disabled-and-__gfp_nofail-charges.patch
mm-memcontrol-remove-explicit-oom-parameter-in-charge-path.patch
mm-memcontrol-simplify-move-precharge-function.patch
mm-memcontrol-catch-root-bypass-in-move-precharge.patch
mm-memcontrol-use-root_mem_cgroup-res_counter.patch
mm-memcontrol-remove-ordering-between-pc-mem_cgroup-and-pagecgroupused.patch
mm-memcontrol-do-not-acquire-page_cgroup-lock-for-kmem-pages.patch
mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api.patch
mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api.patch
memcg-deprecate-memoryforce_empty-knob.patch
memcg-deprecate-memoryforce_empty-knob-fix.patch
debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners.patch
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