[patch 05/12] mm: memcontrol: reclaim at least once for __GFP_NORETRY

[Johannes Weiner]

Currently, __GFP_NORETRY tries charging once and gives up before even
trying to reclaim.  Bring the behavior on par with the page allocator
and reclaim at least once before giving up.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 52550bbff1ef..9c646b9b56f4 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2613,13 +2613,13 @@ retry:
 	if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT))
 		goto nomem;
 
-	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)
-		goto nomem;
-
 	nr_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_reclaim(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, flags);
 
 	if (mem_cgroup_margin(mem_over_limit) >= batch)
 		goto retry;
+
+	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)
+		goto nomem;
 	/*
 	 * Even though the limit is exceeded at this point, reclaim
 	 * may have been able to free some pages.  Retry the charge
-- 
2.0.0

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