From 1f1d06c34f7675026326cd9f39ff91e4555cf355 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 15:06:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] thp, memcg: split hugepage for memcg oom on cow On COW, a new hugepage is allocated and charged to the memcg. If the system is oom or the charge to the memcg fails, however, the fault handler will return VM_FAULT_OOM which results in an oom kill. Instead, it's possible to fallback to splitting the hugepage so that the COW results only in an order-0 page being allocated and charged to the memcg which has a higher liklihood to succeed. This is expensive because the hugepage must be split in the page fault handler, but it is much better than unnecessarily oom killing a process. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed