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-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c95a77cd581b..c5fb017c9430 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
goto out;
/* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs */
- if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
+ if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
goto out;
/* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */
@@ -1781,11 +1781,13 @@ rebalance:
goto got_pg;
/*
- * The OOM killer does not trigger for high-order allocations
- * but if no progress is being made, there are no other
- * options and retrying is unlikely to help
+ * The OOM killer does not trigger for high-order
+ * ~__GFP_NOFAIL allocations so if no progress is being
+ * made, there are no other options and retrying is
+ * unlikely to help.
*/
- if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
+ if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
+ !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
goto nopage;
goto restart;