ring-buffer: Set __GFP_NORETRY flag for ring buffer allocating process
authorVaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Wed, 8 Jun 2011 00:01:42 +0000 (17:01 -0700)
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:48:51 +0000 (22:48 -0400)
commitd7ec4bfed6c97405c6417970ba06c439e08ab8e3
tree35272bc4262f70243382d085787765c5e83d6736
parent22fe9b54d859e53bfbbbdc1a0a77a82bc453927c
ring-buffer: Set __GFP_NORETRY flag for ring buffer allocating process

The tracing ring buffer is allocated from kernel memory. While
allocating a large chunk of memory, OOM might happen which destabilizes
the system. Thus random processes might get killed during the
allocation.

This patch adds __GFP_NORETRY flag to the ring buffer allocation calls
to make it fail more gracefully if the system will not be able to
complete the allocation request.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307491302-9236-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c