mm,ksm: add __GFP_HIGH to the allocation in alloc_stable_node()
authorzhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:01:19 +0000 (17:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 8 Oct 2016 01:46:29 +0000 (18:46 -0700)
commit6213055f2c068b63078649457391ecea9b489ea3
treebb0c8260b211a968de71a05190155fe76da8c3bf
parentac34dcd263a3afe9a2e4d58a2d93bb66d700ac7c
mm,ksm: add __GFP_HIGH to the allocation in alloc_stable_node()

According to Hugh's suggestion, alloc_stable_node() with GFP_KERNEL can
in rare cases cause a hung task warning.

At present, if alloc_stable_node() allocation fails, two break_cows may
want to allocate a couple of pages, and the issue will come up when free
memory is under pressure.

We fix it by adding __GFP_HIGH to GFP, to grant access to memory
reserves, increasing the likelihood of allocation success.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474354484-58233-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/ksm.c