* [PATCH 3/8] kexec: don't invoke OOM-killer for control page allocation
@ 2016-06-03 8:50 Russell King
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From: Russell King @ 2016-06-03 8:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: linux-ia64, kexec, Eric Biederman, linux-arm-kernel
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>
---
include/linux/kexec.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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
--
2.1.0
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