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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2009-06-24 21:59:51 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-24 12:20:14 -0700
commitba52270d18fb17ce2cf176b35419dab1e43fe4a3 (patch)
tree6023e8e0b5b722be7193902894934aaef21e5144
parent4923abf9f1a4c1864af438a57c1f3686548230e9 (diff)
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SLUB: Don't pass __GFP_FAIL for the initial allocation
SLUB uses higher order allocations by default but falls back to small orders under memory pressure. Make sure the GFP mask used in the initial allocation doesn't include __GFP_NOFAIL. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index ce62b77..819f056 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1085,11 +1085,17 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
{
struct page *page;
struct kmem_cache_order_objects oo = s->oo;
+ gfp_t alloc_gfp;
flags |= s->allocflags;
- page = alloc_slab_page(flags | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY, node,
- oo);
+ /*
+ * Let the initial higher-order allocation fail under memory pressure
+ * so we fall-back to the minimum order allocation.
+ */
+ alloc_gfp = (flags | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY) & ~__GFP_NOFAIL;
+
+ page = alloc_slab_page(alloc_gfp, node, oo);
if (unlikely(!page)) {
oo = s->min;
/*