if (unlikely(!zonelist->_zonerefs->zone))
return NULL;
+ get_mems_allowed();
/* The preferred zone is used for statistics later */
first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask, &preferred_zone);
- if (!preferred_zone)
+ if (!preferred_zone) {
+ put_mems_allowed();
return NULL;
+ }
/* First allocation attempt */
page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask|__GFP_HARDWALL, nodemask, order,
page = __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_mask, order,
zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask,
preferred_zone, migratetype);
+ put_mems_allowed();
trace_mm_page_alloc(page, order, gfp_mask, migratetype);
return page;
* 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;
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;
}
}
}