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-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c9
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c2
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 6b90d184e9c0..5d9c8a3136bc 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2055,6 +2055,15 @@ retry:
current->flags & PF_EXITING))
goto force;
+ /*
+ * Prevent unbounded recursion when reclaim operations need to
+ * allocate memory. This might exceed the limits temporarily,
+ * but we prefer facilitating memory reclaim and getting back
+ * under the limit over triggering OOM kills in these cases.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
+ goto force;
+
if (unlikely(task_in_memcg_oom(current)))
goto nomem;
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 0838e9f02b11..de1c59d8daa3 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2910,7 +2910,9 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
sc.may_writepage,
sc.gfp_mask);
+ current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc);
+ current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed);