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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-08-15 01:06:31 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-08-15 01:06:31 -0400
commit95ee46aa8698f2000647dfb362400fadbb5807cf (patch)
treee5a05c7297f997e191c73091934e42e3195c0e40 /mm/page_alloc.c
parentcfa806f059801dbe7e435745eb2e187c8bfe1e7f (diff)
parent92fa5bd9a946b6e7aab6764e7312e4e3d9bed295 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into release
Conflicts: drivers/acpi/debug.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c33
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 9bd339eb04c..a9649f4b261 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1738,7 +1738,7 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
struct page *page;
/* Acquire the OOM killer lock for the zones in zonelist */
- if (!try_set_zone_oom(zonelist, gfp_mask)) {
+ if (!try_set_zonelist_oom(zonelist, gfp_mask)) {
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
return NULL;
}
@@ -1759,6 +1759,9 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
/* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs */
if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
goto out;
+ /* The OOM killer does not needlessly kill tasks for lowmem */
+ if (high_zoneidx < ZONE_NORMAL)
+ goto out;
/*
* GFP_THISNODE contains __GFP_NORETRY and we never hit this.
* Sanity check for bare calls of __GFP_THISNODE, not real OOM.
@@ -2052,15 +2055,23 @@ rebalance:
if (page)
goto got_pg;
- /*
- * 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 &&
- !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
- goto nopage;
+ if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) {
+ /*
+ * The oom killer is not called for high-order
+ * allocations that may fail, so if no progress
+ * is being made, there are no other options and
+ * retrying is unlikely to help.
+ */
+ if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
+ goto nopage;
+ /*
+ * The oom killer is not called for lowmem
+ * allocations to prevent needlessly killing
+ * innocent tasks.
+ */
+ if (high_zoneidx < ZONE_NORMAL)
+ goto nopage;
+ }
goto restart;
}
@@ -4089,8 +4100,6 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
zone_seqlock_init(zone);
zone->zone_pgdat = pgdat;
- zone->prev_priority = DEF_PRIORITY;
-
zone_pcp_init(zone);
for_each_lru(l) {
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&zone->lru[l].list);