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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2011-05-24 17:12:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-25 08:39:25 -0700
commit7b1de5868b124d8f399d8791ed30a9b679d64d4d (patch)
tree3a7d5d7a6ccc3226648cb0e56387614b7066c3ff /include/linux/pagemap.h
parent6d3163ce86dd386b4f7bda80241d7fea2bc0bb1d (diff)
readahead: readahead page allocations are OK to fail
Pass __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOWARN for readahead page allocations. readahead page allocations are completely optional. They are OK to fail and in particular shall not trigger OOM on themselves. Reported-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/pagemap.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pagemap.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index ea268080380d..716875e53520 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -219,6 +219,12 @@ static inline struct page *page_cache_alloc_cold(struct address_space *x)
return __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(x)|__GFP_COLD);
}
+static inline struct page *page_cache_alloc_readahead(struct address_space *x)
+{
+ return __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(x) |
+ __GFP_COLD | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN);
+}
+
typedef int filler_t(void *, struct page *);
extern struct page * find_get_page(struct address_space *mapping,