linux/include
Michal Hocko 0f55685627 mm, migration: do not trigger OOM killer when migrating memory
Page migration (for memory hotplug, soft_offline_page or mbind) needs to
allocate a new memory.  This can trigger an oom killer if the target
memory is depleated.  Although quite unlikely, still possible,
especially for the memory hotplug (offlining of memoery).

Up to now we didn't really have reasonable means to back off.
__GFP_NORETRY can fail just too easily and __GFP_THISNODE sticks to a
single node and that is not suitable for all callers.

But now that we have __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL we should use it.  It is
preferable to fail the migration than disrupt the system by killing some
processes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623085345.11304-7-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alex Belits <alex.belits@cavium.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-12 16:26:04 -07:00
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acpi More ACPI updates for v4.13-rc1 2017-07-10 15:19:40 -07:00
asm-generic asm-generic/bug.h: declare struct pt_regs; before function prototype 2017-07-10 16:32:34 -07:00
clocksource
crypto
drm main drm pull for v4.13 2017-07-09 18:48:37 -07:00
dt-bindings This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.13 series: 2017-07-07 12:40:27 -07:00
keys
kvm
linux mm, migration: do not trigger OOM killer when migrating memory 2017-07-12 16:26:04 -07:00
math-emu
media main drm pull for v4.13 2017-07-09 18:48:37 -07:00
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net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-07-08 12:01:22 -07:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Fixes #3 for 4.12-rc 2017-07-06 11:45:08 -07:00
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scsi SCSI misc on 20170704 2017-07-06 12:10:33 -07:00
soc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-07-05 12:31:59 -07:00
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target
trace mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic 2017-07-12 16:26:03 -07:00
uapi include/linux/sem.h: correctly document sem_ctime 2017-07-12 16:26:01 -07:00
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xen This is the first pull request for the new dma-mapping subsystem 2017-07-06 19:20:54 -07:00