[PATCH 3/8] kexec: don't invoke OOM-killer for control page allocation

Russell King rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Jun 3 01:50:21 PDT 2016


If we are unable to find a suitable page when allocating the control
page, do not invoke the OOM-killer: killing processes probably isn't
going to help.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Anand <panand at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
---
 include/linux/kexec.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index 2cc643c6e870..1b32ab587f66 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifndef KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP
-#define KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP GFP_KERNEL
+#define KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY)
 #endif
 
 #ifndef KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE
-- 
2.1.0




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