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[3/8] kexec: don't invoke OOM-killer for control page allocation

Message ID E1b8ko9-0004HG-R5@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Russell King June 3, 2016, 8:50 a.m. UTC 
If we are unable to find a suitable page when allocating the control
page, do not invoke the OOM-killer: killing processes probably isn't
going to help.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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 include/linux/kexec.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index 2cc643c6e870..1b32ab587f66 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ 
 #endif
 
 #ifndef KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP
-#define KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP GFP_KERNEL
+#define KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY)
 #endif
 
 #ifndef KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE