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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 6b90d184e9c0..5d9c8a3136bc 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2055,6 +2055,15 @@ retry: current->flags & PF_EXITING)) goto force; + /* + * Prevent unbounded recursion when reclaim operations need to + * allocate memory. This might exceed the limits temporarily, + * but we prefer facilitating memory reclaim and getting back + * under the limit over triggering OOM kills in these cases. + */ + if (unlikely(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)) + goto force; + if (unlikely(task_in_memcg_oom(current))) goto nomem; diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 0838e9f02b11..de1c59d8daa3 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2910,7 +2910,9 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, sc.may_writepage, sc.gfp_mask); + current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC; nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc); + current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC; trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed); |