[PATCH] memcg, oom: no oom-kill for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL

From: Shakeel Butt
Date: Sun Apr 28 2019 - 19:56:37 EST


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.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 2713b45ec3f0..99eca724ed3b 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2294,7 +2294,6 @@ 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))
@@ -2381,7 +2380,7 @@ 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)
@@ -2400,7 +2399,6 @@ 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;
--
2.21.0.593.g511ec345e18-goog