[PATCH] x86_64: Don't invoke OOM killer during dma_alloc_coherent()

There is a fallback logic, so it's better to not use the OOM killer
in the allocations.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-dma.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-dma.c
index 4ed391edd47a..03c9eeedb0f3 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-dma.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-dma.c
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle,
         if (dma_mask == 0)
                 dma_mask = 0xffffffff;
 
+        /* Don't invoke OOM killer */
+        gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY;
+
         /* Kludge to make it bug-to-bug compatible with i386. i386
            uses the normal dma_mask for alloc_coherent. */
         dma_mask &= *dev->dma_mask;