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Andrew Morton authored
If a GFP_NOFS allocation is made when the ZONE_NORMAL inactive list is full of dirty or under-writeback pages, there is nothing the caller can do to force some page reclaim. The caller ends up getting oom-killed. - In mempool_alloc(), don't try to perform page reclaim again. Just go to sleep and wait for some elements to be returned to the pool. - In try_to_free_pages(): perform a single, short scan of the LRU and if that doesn't work, fail the allocation. GFP_NOFS allocators know how to handle that.
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