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Commit 055e4fd9 authored by Ben Hutchings's avatar Ben Hutchings Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: try harder to allocate vmemmap blocks



Hot-adding memory on x86_64 normally requires huge page allocation.
When this is done to a VM guest, it's usually because the system is
already tight on memory, so the request tends to fail.  Try to avoid
this by adding __GFP_REPEAT to the allocation flags.

Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/699913

Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: default avatarBernhard Schmidt <Bernhard.Schmidt@lrz.de>
Tested-by: default avatarBernhard Schmidt <Bernhard.Schmidt@lrz.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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