oom: invoke oom killer for __GFP_NOFAIL
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:32:58 +0000 (15:32 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:47:43 +0000 (19:47 -0700)
commit82553a937f12352c26fe457510ebab3f512cd3fa
treec3df31e9953d5f56491576ba019fdc2cd87af926
parent4d8b9135c30ccbe46e621fefd862969819003fd6
oom: invoke oom killer for __GFP_NOFAIL

The oom killer must be invoked regardless of the order if the allocation
is __GFP_NOFAIL, otherwise it will loop forever when reclaim fails to free
some memory.

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c