From 9d0ed60fe9cd1fbf57f755cd27a23ae9114d7210 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:26:17 -0800
Subject: page allocator: Do not allow interrupts to use ALLOC_HARDER
Commit 341ce06f69abfafa31b9468410a13dbd60e2b237 ("page allocator:
calculate the alloc_flags for allocation only once") altered watermark
logic slightly by allowing rt_tasks that are handling an interrupt to set
ALLOC_HARDER. This patch brings the watermark logic more in line with
2.6.30.
This change results in a reduction of the number high-order GFP_ATOMIC
allocation failures reported. See
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1144153
[rientjes@google.com: Spotted the problem]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
(limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 250d0552a92d..2bc2ac63f41e 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1769,7 +1769,7 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
* See also cpuset_zone_allowed() comment in kernel/cpuset.c.
*/
alloc_flags &= ~ALLOC_CPUSET;
- } else if (unlikely(rt_task(p)))
+ } else if (unlikely(rt_task(p)) && !in_interrupt())
alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
if (likely(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC))) {
--
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