linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memcg: do not call reclaim if !__GFP

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Date:	Thu, 28 May 2015 12:59:34 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
Cc:	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: do not call reclaim if !__GFP_WAIT

On Thu, 28 May 2015 20:26:06 +0300 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com> wrote:

> When trimming memcg consumption excess (see memory.high), we call
> try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages without checking if we are allowed to sleep
> in the current context, which can result in a deadlock. Fix this.

Why does it deadlock?  try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() is passed the
gfp_mask and should honour its __GFP_WAIT setting?

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