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						Glauber Costa
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		From: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org> 
 
mem_cgroup_do_charge() was written before slab accounting, and expects 
three cases: being called for 1 page, being called for a stock of 32 pages, 
or being called for a hugepage.  If we call for 2 or 3 pages (and several 
slabs used in process creation are such, at least with the debug options I 
had), it assumed it's being called for stock and just retried without reclaiming. 
 
Fix that by passing down a minsize argument in addition to the csize. 
 
And what to do about that (csize == PAGE_SIZE && ret) retry?  If it's 
needed at all (and presumably is since it's there, perhaps to handle 
races), then it should be extended to more than PAGE_SIZE, yet how far? 
And should there be a retry count limit, of what?  For now retry up to 
COSTLY_ORDER (as page_alloc.c does), stay safe with a cond_resched(), 
and make sure not to do it if __GFP_NORETRY. 
 
[v4: fixed nr pages calculation pointed out by Christoph Lameter ] 
 
Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> 
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> 
Reviewed-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> 
--- 
 mm/memcontrol.c |   18 +++++++++++------- 
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) 
 
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c 
index 00b9f1e..b6cb075 100644 
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c 
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c 
@@ -2187,7 +2187,8 @@ enum { 
 }; 
  
 static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, 
-				unsigned int nr_pages, bool oom_check) 
+				unsigned int nr_pages, unsigned int min_pages, 
+				bool oom_check) 
 { 
 	unsigned long csize = nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE; 
 	struct mem_cgroup *mem_over_limit; 
@@ -2210,18 +2211,18 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, 
 	} else 
 		mem_over_limit = mem_cgroup_from_res_counter(fail_res, res); 
 	/* 
-	 * nr_pages can be either a huge page (HPAGE_PMD_NR), a batch 
-	 * of regular pages (CHARGE_BATCH), or a single regular page (1). 
-	 * 
 	 * Never reclaim on behalf of optional batching, retry with a 
 	 * single page instead. 
 	 */ 
-	if (nr_pages == CHARGE_BATCH) 
+	if (nr_pages > min_pages) 
 		return CHARGE_RETRY; 
  
 	if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)) 
 		return CHARGE_WOULDBLOCK; 
  
+	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY) 
+		return CHARGE_NOMEM; 
+ 
 	ret = mem_cgroup_reclaim(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, flags); 
 	if (mem_cgroup_margin(mem_over_limit) >= nr_pages) 
 		return CHARGE_RETRY; 
@@ -2234,8 +2235,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, 
 	 * unlikely to succeed so close to the limit, and we fall back 
 	 * to regular pages anyway in case of failure. 
 	 */ 
-	if (nr_pages == 1 && ret) 
+	if (nr_pages <= (1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) && ret) { 
+		cond_resched(); 
 		return CHARGE_RETRY; 
+	} 
  
 	/* 
 	 * At task move, charge accounts can be doubly counted. So, it's 
@@ -2369,7 +2372,8 @@ again: 
 			nr_oom_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES; 
 		} 
  
-		ret = mem_cgroup_do_charge(memcg, gfp_mask, batch, oom_check); 
+		ret = mem_cgroup_do_charge(memcg, gfp_mask, batch, nr_pages, 
+		    oom_check); 
 		switch (ret) { 
 		case CHARGE_OK: 
 			break; 
--  
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