Don't invoke OOM killer while allocating floppy DMA buffers Floppy can fall back to smaller buffers, so don't do OOM killing. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- include/asm-x86_64/floppy.h | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/include/asm-x86_64/floppy.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/asm-x86_64/floppy.h +++ linux/include/asm-x86_64/floppy.h @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static int fd_request_irq(void) static unsigned long dma_mem_alloc(unsigned long size) { - return __get_dma_pages(GFP_KERNEL,get_order(size)); + return __get_dma_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NORETRY,get_order(size)); }