mm: page_alloc: revert inadvertent !__GFP_FS retry behavior change
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:52:09 +0000 (15:52 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 28 Feb 2015 17:57:51 +0000 (09:57 -0800)
commitcc87317726f851531ae8422e0c2d3d6e2d7b1955
treef691f720779325efc479c177f4caa8a3ce60c705
parent39afb5ee4640b4ed2cdd9e12b2a67cf785cfced8
mm: page_alloc: revert inadvertent !__GFP_FS retry behavior change

Historically, !__GFP_FS allocations were not allowed to invoke the OOM
killer once reclaim had failed, but nevertheless kept looping in the
allocator.

Commit 9879de7373fc ("mm: page_alloc: embed OOM killing naturally into
allocation slowpath"), which should have been a simple cleanup patch,
accidentally changed the behavior to aborting the allocation at that
point.  This creates problems with filesystem callers (?) that currently
rely on the allocator waiting for other tasks to intervene.

Revert the behavior as it shouldn't have been changed as part of a
cleanup patch.

Fixes: 9879de7373fc ("mm: page_alloc: embed OOM killing naturally into allocation slowpath")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.19.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c