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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 2655c07baada..37592dd7ae32 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2535,6 +2535,15 @@ retry: } /* + * Memcg doesn't have a dedicated reserve for atomic + * allocations. But like the global atomic pool, we need to + * put the burden of reclaim on regular allocation requests + * and let these go through as privileged allocations. + */ + if (gfp_mask & __GFP_ATOMIC) + goto force; + + /* * Unlike in global OOM situations, memcg is not in a physical * memory shortage. Allow dying and OOM-killed tasks to * bypass the last charges so that they can exit quickly and |