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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/seq_file.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c index 353948ba1c5b..dbf3a59c86bb 100644 --- a/fs/seq_file.c +++ b/fs/seq_file.c @@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ static void *seq_buf_alloc(unsigned long size) { void *buf; - buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN); + /* + * __GFP_NORETRY to avoid oom-killings with high-order allocations - + * it's better to fall back to vmalloc() than to kill things. + */ + buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN); if (!buf && size > PAGE_SIZE) buf = vmalloc(size); return buf; |