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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index c95a77cd581..c5fb017c943 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, goto out; /* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs */ - if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) + if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) goto out; /* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */ @@ -1781,11 +1781,13 @@ rebalance: goto got_pg; /* - * The OOM killer does not trigger for high-order allocations - * but if no progress is being made, there are no other - * options and retrying is unlikely to help + * The OOM killer does not trigger for high-order + * ~__GFP_NOFAIL allocations so if no progress is being + * made, there are no other options and retrying is + * unlikely to help. */ - if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) + if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER && + !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) goto nopage; goto restart; |