kexec: don't invoke OOM-killer for control page allocation

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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E1b8ko9-0004HG-R5@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
Cc: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@ti.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index e8acb2b..ce2fe19 100644 (file)
--- 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