mm: try harder to allocate vmemmap blocks
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:07:49 +0000 (15:07 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:54:35 +0000 (15:54 -0700)
commit055e4fd96e95b0eee0d92fd54a26be7f0d3bcad0
tree48f7e2d9a829daf6fef897e7d34dfa01f8cf83b3
parent949f7ec5760b021da3cccc1eaeb0671270e4238f
mm: try harder to allocate vmemmap blocks

Hot-adding memory on x86_64 normally requires huge page allocation.
When this is done to a VM guest, it's usually because the system is
already tight on memory, so the request tends to fail.  Try to avoid
this by adding __GFP_REPEAT to the allocation flags.

Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/699913

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Bernhard Schmidt <Bernhard.Schmidt@lrz.de>
Tested-by: Bernhard Schmidt <Bernhard.Schmidt@lrz.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/sparse-vmemmap.c