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mm, memcg: do not retry precharge charges 

When memory.move_charge_at_immigrate is enabled and precharges are
depleted during move, mem_cgroup_move_charge_pte_range() will attempt to
increase the size of the precharge.

Prevent precharges from ever looping by setting __GFP_NORETRY.  This was
probably the intention of the GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_NORETRY, which is
pointless as written.

Fixes: 0029e19ebf ("mm: memcontrol: remove explicit OOM parameter in charge path")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701130208510.69402@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes 2017-01-24 15:18:10 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3ba4bceef2
commit 3674534b77
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -4353,9 +4353,9 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_precharge(unsigned long count)
return ret;
}
/* Try charges one by one with reclaim */
/* Try charges one by one with reclaim, but do not retry */
while (count--) {
ret = try_charge(mc.to, GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_NORETRY, 1);
ret = try_charge(mc.to, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, 1);
if (ret)
return ret;
mc.precharge++;