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mm: io_uring: allow oom-killer from io_uring_setup

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On an overcommitted system which is running multiple workloads of
varying priorities, it is preferred to trigger an oom-killer to kill a
low priority workload than to let the high priority workload receiving
ENOMEMs. On our memory overcommitted systems, we are seeing a lot of
ENOMEMs instead of oom-kills because io_uring_setup callchain is using
__GFP_NORETRY gfp flag which avoids the oom-killer. Let's remove it and
allow the oom-killer to kill a lower priority job.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220125051736.2981459-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Shakeel Butt 2022-01-24 21:17:36 -08:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 0d7c1153d9
commit 0a3f1e0bea
1 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -8932,10 +8932,9 @@ static void io_mem_free(void *ptr)
static void *io_mem_alloc(size_t size)
{
gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_COMP |
__GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_ACCOUNT;
gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_COMP;
return (void *) __get_free_pages(gfp_flags, get_order(size));
return (void *) __get_free_pages(gfp, get_order(size));
}
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