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Commit 8493ae43 authored by Johannes Weiner's avatar Johannes Weiner Committed by Linus Torvalds
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memcg: never OOM when charging huge pages



Huge page coverage should obviously have less priority than the continued
execution of a process.

Never kill a process when charging it a huge page fails.  Instead, give up
after the first failed reclaim attempt and fall back to regular pages.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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