Skip to content
Commit d7ec4bfe authored by Vaibhav Nagarnaik's avatar Vaibhav Nagarnaik Committed by Steven Rostedt
Browse files

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: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVaibhav 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: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 22fe9b54
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment