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-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index bbd0423f2820..e7664b9f706c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1971,7 +1971,12 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
alloc_flags |= (__force int) (gfp_mask & __GFP_HIGH);
if (!wait) {
- alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
+ /*
+ * Not worth trying to allocate harder for
+ * __GFP_NOMEMALLOC even if it can't schedule.
+ */
+ if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC))
+ alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
/*
* Ignore cpuset if GFP_ATOMIC (!wait) rather than fail alloc.
* See also cpuset_zone_allowed() comment in kernel/cpuset.c.