mm: page_alloc: revert inadvertent !__GFP_FS retry behavior change

[mirror_ubuntu-artful-kernel.git] / mm / page_alloc.c

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index a47f0b229a1aca202b15195c88ab93d52e65064f..7abfa70cdc1ae8767fd663d905372447a7fe6864 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2353,8 +2353,15 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
                if (ac->high_zoneidx < ZONE_NORMAL)
                        goto out;
                /* The OOM killer does not compensate for light reclaim */
-               if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
+               if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)) {
+                       /*
+                        * XXX: Page reclaim didn't yield anything,
+                        * and the OOM killer can't be invoked, but
+                        * keep looping as per should_alloc_retry().
+                        */
+                       *did_some_progress = 1;
                        goto out;
+               }
                /*
                 * GFP_THISNODE contains __GFP_NORETRY and we never hit this.
                 * Sanity check for bare calls of __GFP_THISNODE, not real OOM.