mm,ksm: add __GFP_HIGH to the allocation in alloc_stable_node()
According to Hugh's suggestion, alloc_stable_node() with GFP_KERNEL can in rare cases cause a hung task warning. At present, if alloc_stable_node() allocation fails, two break_cows may want to allocate a couple of pages, and the issue will come up when free memory is under pressure. We fix it by adding __GFP_HIGH to GFP, to grant access to memory reserves, increasing the likelihood of allocation success. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474354484-58233-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.comSigned-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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