The patch titled
Subject: kexec: don't invoke OOM-killer for control page allocation
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
kexec-dont-invoke-oom-killer-for-control-page-allocation.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kexec-dont-invoke-oom-killer-for-control-page-allocation.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kexec-dont-invoke-oom-killer-for-control-page-allocation.patch
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From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: kexec: don't invoke OOM-killer for control page allocation
If we are unable to find a suitable page when allocating the control page,
do not invoke the OOM-killer: killing processes probably isn't going to
help.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E1b8ko9-0004HG-R5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Keerthy <j-keerthy@xxxxxx>
Cc: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@xxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/kexec.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN include/linux/kexec.h~kexec-dont-invoke-oom-killer-for-control-page-allocation include/linux/kexec.h
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h~kexec-dont-invoke-oom-killer-for-control-page-allocation
+++ a/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
#endif
#ifndef KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP
-#define KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP GFP_KERNEL
+#define KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY)
#endif
#ifndef KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
arm-kdump-advertise-boot-aliased-crash-kernel-resource.patch
arm-kexec-advertise-location-of-bootable-ram.patch
kexec-dont-invoke-oom-killer-for-control-page-allocation.patch
kexec-ensure-user-memory-sizes-do-not-wrap.patch
kdump-arrange-for-paddr_vmcoreinfo_note-to-return-phys_addr_t.patch
kexec-allow-architectures-to-override-boot-mapping.patch
arm-kexec-fix-kexec-for-keystone-2.patch
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