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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c index c93f27b981f5..615f0a855222 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c @@ -2352,7 +2352,20 @@ rebuild_st: if (!*s) { /* reclaim and warn, but no oom */ gfp = mapping_gfp_mask(mapping); - gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY; + + /* Our bo are always dirty and so we require + * kswapd to reclaim our pages (direct reclaim + * does not effectively begin pageout of our + * buffers on its own). However, direct reclaim + * only waits for kswapd when under allocation + * congestion. So as a result __GFP_RECLAIM is + * unreliable and fails to actually reclaim our + * dirty pages -- unless you try over and over + * again with !__GFP_NORETRY. However, we still + * want to fail this allocation rather than + * trigger the out-of-memory killer and for + * this we want the future __GFP_MAYFAIL. + */ } } while (1); |