mainlining shenanigans
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I tried __GFP_NORETRY in the belief that __GFP_RECLAIM was effective. It struggles with handling reclaim of our dirty buffers and relies on reclaim via kswapd. As a result, a single pass of direct reclaim is unreliable when i915 occupies the majority of available memory, and the only means of effectively waiting on kswapd to amke progress is by not setting the __GFP_NORETRY flag and lopping. That leaves us with the dilemma of invoking the oomkiller instead of propagating the allocation failure back to userspace where it can be handled more gracefully (one hopes). In the future we may have __GFP_MAYFAIL to allow repeats up until we genuinely run out of memory and the oomkiller would have been invoked. Until then, let the oomkiller wreck havoc. v2: Stop playing with side-effects of gfp flags and await __GFP_MAYFAIL v3: Update comments that direct reclaim only appears to be ignoring our dirty buffers! Fixes: |
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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.