From 6583bb64fc370842b32a87c67750c26f6d559af0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:02:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: avoid endless looping for oom killed tasks If a task is oom killed and still cannot find memory when trying with no watermarks, it's better to fail the allocation attempt than to loop endlessly. Direct reclaim has already failed and the oom killer will be a no-op since current has yet to die, so there is no other alternative for allocations that are not __GFP_NOFAIL. Acked-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index ae28c22a7fdb..2dbb2fc68837 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1794,6 +1794,10 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, if (p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) goto nopage; + /* Avoid allocations with no watermarks from looping endlessly */ + if (test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) + goto nopage; + /* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */ page = __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, high_zoneidx,