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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2017-02-22 15:46:22 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-22 16:41:30 -0800
commit06ad276ac18742c6b281698d41b27a290cd42407 (patch)
treea9767802901845a4dc46f27486f599801e6ddd01 /mm/oom_kill.c
parent9a67f6488eca926f8356b2737fc9f8f6c0cbed85 (diff)
mm, oom: do not enforce OOM killer for __GFP_NOFAIL automatically
__alloc_pages_may_oom makes sure to skip the OOM killer depending on the allocation request. This includes lowmem requests, costly high order requests and others. For a long time __GFP_NOFAIL acted as an override for all those rules. This is not documented and it can be quite surprising as well. E.g. GFP_NOFS requests are not invoking the OOM killer but GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL does so if we try to convert some of the existing open coded loops around allocator to nofail request (and we have done that in the past) then such a change would have a non trivial side effect which is far from obvious. Note that the primary motivation for skipping the OOM killer is to prevent from pre-mature invocation. The exception has been added by commit 82553a937f12 ("oom: invoke oom killer for __GFP_NOFAIL"). The changelog points out that the oom killer has to be invoked otherwise the request would be looping for ever. But this argument is rather weak because the OOM killer doesn't really guarantee a forward progress for those exceptional cases: - it will hardly help to form costly order which in turn can result in the system panic because of no oom killable task in the end - I believe we certainly do not want to put the system down just because there is a nasty driver asking for order-9 page with GFP_NOFAIL not realizing all the consequences. It is much better this request would loop for ever than the massive system disruption - lowmem is also highly unlikely to be freed during OOM killer - GFP_NOFS request could trigger while there is still a lot of memory pinned by filesystems. This patch simply removes the __GFP_NOFAIL special case in order to have a more clear semantic without surprising side effects. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Nils Holland <nholland@tisys.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/oom_kill.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/oom_kill.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 7176b6a754cf..c7b48b4282d9 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
* make sure exclude 0 mask - all other users should have at least
* ___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM to get here.
*/
- if (oc->gfp_mask && !(oc->gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOFAIL)))
+ if (oc->gfp_mask && !(oc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
return true;
/*