1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f7da2a2934b7..cefe6fe8d991 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2606,7 +2606,7 @@ static int default_zonelist_order(void)
          * ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32 can be very small area in the system.
          * If they are really small and used heavily, the system can fall
          * into OOM very easily.
-         * This function detect ZONE_DMA/DMA32 size and confgigures zone order.
+         * This function detect ZONE_DMA/DMA32 size and configures zone order.
          */
         /* Is there ZONE_NORMAL ? (ex. ppc has only DMA zone..) */
         low_kmem_size = 0;
@@ -2618,6 +2618,15 @@ static int default_zonelist_order(void)
                                 if (zone_type < ZONE_NORMAL)
                                         low_kmem_size += z->present_pages;
                                 total_size += z->present_pages;
+                        } else if (zone_type == ZONE_NORMAL) {
+                                /*
+                                 * If any node has only lowmem, then node order
+                                 * is preferred to allow kernel allocations
+                                 * locally; otherwise, they can easily infringe
+                                 * on other nodes when there is an abundance of
+                                 * lowmem available to allocate from.
+                                 */
+                                return ZONELIST_ORDER_NODE;
                         }
                 }
         }