This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm, memcg: do not retry precharge charges to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mm-memcg-do-not-retry-precharge-charges.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3674534b775354516e5c148ea48f51d4d1909a78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:18:10 -0800 Subject: mm, memcg: do not retry precharge charges From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 3674534b775354516e5c148ea48f51d4d1909a78 upstream. When memory.move_charge_at_immigrate is enabled and precharges are depleted during move, mem_cgroup_move_charge_pte_range() will attempt to increase the size of the precharge. Prevent precharges from ever looping by setting __GFP_NORETRY. This was probably the intention of the GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_NORETRY, which is pointless as written. Fixes: 0029e19ebf84 ("mm: memcontrol: remove explicit OOM parameter in charge path") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701130208510.69402@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -4496,9 +4496,9 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_precharge(unsig return ret; } - /* Try charges one by one with reclaim */ + /* Try charges one by one with reclaim, but do not retry */ while (count--) { - ret = try_charge(mc.to, GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_NORETRY, 1); + ret = try_charge(mc.to, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, 1); if (ret) return ret; mc.precharge++; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/mm-memcg-do-not-retry-precharge-charges.patch queue-4.4/mm-mempolicy.c-do-not-put-mempolicy-before-using-its-nodemask.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html