Commit 38d38493 authored by Shakeel Butt's avatar Shakeel Butt Committed by Linus Torvalds

memcg, oom: no oom-kill for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL

The documentation of __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL clearly mentioned that the OOM
killer will not be triggered and indeed the page alloc does not invoke OOM
killer for such allocations.  However we do trigger memcg OOM killer for
__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL.  Fix that.  This flag will used later to not trigger
oom-killer in the charging path for fanotify and inotify event
allocations.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190514212259.156585-1-shakeelb@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent aeb309b8
......@@ -2279,7 +2279,6 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
bool may_swap = true;
bool drained = false;
bool oomed = false;
enum oom_status oom_status;
if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
......@@ -2366,7 +2365,7 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
if (nr_retries--)
goto retry;
if (gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL && oomed)
if (gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL)
goto nomem;
if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)
......@@ -2385,7 +2384,6 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
switch (oom_status) {
case OOM_SUCCESS:
nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
oomed = true;
goto retry;
case OOM_FAILED:
goto force;
......
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