[PATCH] mm: fix oom roll-back of __vmalloc_area_node
__vunmap must not rely on area->nr_pages when picking the release methode
for area->pages. It may be too small when __vmalloc_area_node failed early
due to lacking memory. Instead, use a flag in vmstruct to differentiate.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index f6024ab..71b6363 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#define VM_ALLOC 0x00000002 /* vmalloc() */
#define VM_MAP 0x00000004 /* vmap()ed pages */
#define VM_USERMAP 0x00000008 /* suitable for remap_vmalloc_range */
+#define VM_VPAGES 0x00000010 /* buffer for pages was vmalloc'ed */
/* bits [20..32] reserved for arch specific ioremap internals */
/*