mm, memcg: do not retry precharge charges

When memory.move_charge_at_immigrate is enabled and precharges are
depleted during move, mem_cgroup_move_charge_pte_range() will attempt to
increase the size of the precharge.

Prevent precharges from ever looping by setting __GFP_NORETRY.  This was
probably the intention of the GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_NORETRY, which is
pointless as written.

Fixes: 0029e19ebf ("mm: memcontrol: remove explicit OOM parameter in charge path")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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David Rientjes 2017-01-24 15:18:10 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 3674534b77

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@ -4353,9 +4353,9 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_precharge(unsigned long count)
return ret;
}
/* Try charges one by one with reclaim */
/* Try charges one by one with reclaim, but do not retry */
while (count--) {
ret = try_charge(mc.to, GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_NORETRY, 1);
ret = try_charge(mc.to, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY, 1);
if (ret)
return ret;
mc.precharge++;