ARM: 8337/1: mm: Do not invoke OOM for higher order IOMMU DMA allocations
authorTomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>
Wed, 1 Apr 2015 06:26:33 +0000 (07:26 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 2 Apr 2015 08:58:25 +0000 (09:58 +0100)
commit49f28aa6b0d0735dbe5f04263c49a199ed0c5bb7
treea1ff240e7ac0d1b3373a81ca3820d7b7a7b198fe
parent8defb3367fcd19d1af64c07792aade0747b54e0f
ARM: 8337/1: mm: Do not invoke OOM for higher order IOMMU DMA allocations

IOMMU should be able to use single pages as well as bigger blocks, so if
higher order allocations fail, we should not affect state of the system,
with events such as OOM killer, but rather fall back to order 0
allocations.

This patch changes the behavior of ARM IOMMU DMA allocator to use
__GFP_NORETRY, which bypasses OOM invocation, for orders higher than
zero and, only if that fails, fall back to normal order 0 allocation
which might invoke OOM killer.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c