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| author | Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> | 2011-05-24 17:12:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-25 08:39:25 -0700 |
| commit | 7b1de5868b124d8f399d8791ed30a9b679d64d4d (patch) | |
| tree | 3a7d5d7a6ccc3226648cb0e56387614b7066c3ff /mm/readahead.c | |
| parent | 6d3163ce86dd386b4f7bda80241d7fea2bc0bb1d (diff) | |
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readahead: readahead page allocations are OK to fail
Pass __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOWARN for readahead page allocations.
readahead page allocations are completely optional. They are OK to fail
and in particular shall not trigger OOM on themselves.
Reported-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/readahead.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/readahead.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c index 2c0cc489e288..867f9dd82dcd 100644 --- a/mm/readahead.c +++ b/mm/readahead.c @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, if (page) continue; - page = page_cache_alloc_cold(mapping); + page = page_cache_alloc_readahead(mapping); if (!page) break; page->index = page_offset; |