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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-10-30 12:42:58 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-10-30 12:42:58 -0400
commit27058af401e49d88a905df000dd26f443fcfa8ce (patch)
tree819f32113d3b8374b9fbf72e2202d4c4d4511a60 /mm/memcontrol.c
parent357f4aae859b5d74554b0ccbb18556f1df4166c3 (diff)
parent2a26d99b251b8625d27aed14e97fc10707a3a81f (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Mostly simple overlapping changes. For example, David Ahern's adjacency list revamp in 'net-next' conflicted with an adjacency list traversal bug fix in 'net'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index ae052b5e3315..0f870ba43942 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1917,6 +1917,15 @@ retry:
current->flags & PF_EXITING))
goto force;
+ /*
+ * Prevent unbounded recursion when reclaim operations need to
+ * allocate memory. This might exceed the limits temporarily,
+ * but we prefer facilitating memory reclaim and getting back
+ * under the limit over triggering OOM kills in these cases.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
+ goto force;
+
if (unlikely(task_in_memcg_oom(current)))
goto nomem;