SLUB: Don't pass __GFP_FAIL for the initial allocation
SLUB uses higher order allocations by default but falls back to small
orders under memory pressure. Make sure the GFP mask used in the initial
allocation doesn't include __GFP_NOFAIL.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index ce62b77..819f056 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1085,11 +1085,17 @@
{
struct page *page;
struct kmem_cache_order_objects oo = s->oo;
+ gfp_t alloc_gfp;
flags |= s->allocflags;
- page = alloc_slab_page(flags | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY, node,
- oo);
+ /*
+ * Let the initial higher-order allocation fail under memory pressure
+ * so we fall-back to the minimum order allocation.
+ */
+ alloc_gfp = (flags | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY) & ~__GFP_NOFAIL;
+
+ page = alloc_slab_page(alloc_gfp, node, oo);
if (unlikely(!page)) {
oo = s->min;
/*