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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/kmem.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.h b/fs/xfs/kmem.h index d6ea520162b2..4d85992d75b2 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/kmem.h +++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.h @@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ kmem_flags_convert(xfs_km_flags_t flags) lflags &= ~__GFP_FS; } + /* + * Default page/slab allocator behavior is to retry for ever + * for small allocations. We can override this behavior by using + * __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL which will tell the allocator to retry as long + * as it is feasible but rather fail than retry forever for all + * request sizes. + */ + if (flags & KM_MAYFAIL) + lflags |= __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL; + if (flags & KM_ZERO) lflags |= __GFP_ZERO; |