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Michal Hocko 9a67f6488e mm: consolidate GFP_NOFAIL checks in the allocator slowpath
Tetsuo Handa has pointed out that commit 0a0337e0d1 ("mm, oom: rework
oom detection") has subtly changed semantic for costly high order
requests with __GFP_NOFAIL and withtout __GFP_REPEAT and those can fail
right now.  My code inspection didn't reveal any such users in the tree
but it is true that this might lead to unexpected allocation failures
and subsequent OOPs.

__alloc_pages_slowpath wrt.  GFP_NOFAIL is hard to follow currently.
There are few special cases but we are lacking a catch all place to be
sure we will not miss any case where the non failing allocation might
fail.  This patch reorganizes the code a bit and puts all those special
cases under nopage label which is the generic go-to-fail path.  Non
failing allocations are retried or those that cannot retry like
non-sleeping allocation go to the failure point directly.  This should
make the code flow much easier to follow and make it less error prone
for future changes.

While we are there we have to move the stall check up to catch
potentially looping non-failing allocations.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alloc_flags may-be-used-uninitalized]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161220134904.21023-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
arch lib/show_mem.c: teach show_mem to work with the given nodemask 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
block block: use for_each_thread() in sys_ioprio_set()/sys_ioprio_get() 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
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crypto crypto: algif_aead - Fix kernel panic on list_del 2017-02-03 17:45:48 +08:00
Documentation mm, thp: add new defer+madvise defrag option 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
drivers lib/show_mem.c: teach show_mem to work with the given nodemask 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
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fs powerpc: do not make the entire heap executable 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
include lib/show_mem.c: teach show_mem to work with the given nodemask 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
init slub: make sysfs directories for memcg sub-caches optional 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel userfaultfd: non-cooperative: Add fork() event 2017-02-22 16:41:28 -08:00
lib lib/show_mem.c: teach show_mem to work with the given nodemask 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
mm mm: consolidate GFP_NOFAIL checks in the allocator slowpath 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
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security driver core patches for 4.11-rc1 2017-02-22 11:44:32 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda - adding a new NV HDMI/DP codec ID in the driver 2017-02-09 08:57:47 +01:00
tools userfaultfd: selftest: test UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE on all memory types 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.