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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 6965be064a3..0a502e99ee2 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1461,7 +1461,8 @@ __alloc_pages_internal(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, struct task_struct *p = current; int do_retry; int alloc_flags; - int did_some_progress; + unsigned long did_some_progress; + unsigned long pages_reclaimed = 0; might_sleep_if(wait); @@ -1611,15 +1612,26 @@ nofail_alloc: * Don't let big-order allocations loop unless the caller explicitly * requests that. Wait for some write requests to complete then retry. * - * In this implementation, either order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER or - * __GFP_REPEAT mean __GFP_NOFAIL, but that may not be true in other + * In this implementation, order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER + * means __GFP_NOFAIL, but that may not be true in other * implementations. + * + * For order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER, if __GFP_REPEAT is + * specified, then we retry until we no longer reclaim any pages + * (above), or we've reclaimed an order of pages at least as + * large as the allocation's order. In both cases, if the + * allocation still fails, we stop retrying. */ + pages_reclaimed += did_some_progress; do_retry = 0; if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)) { - if ((order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) || - (gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT)) + if (order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) { do_retry = 1; + } else { + if (gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT && + pages_reclaimed < (1 << order)) + do_retry = 1; + } if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL) do_retry = 1; } |