From: Nick Piggin __alloc_pages currently starts shooting if page reclaim has failed to free up swap_cluster_max pages in one run through the priorities. This is not always a good indicator on its own, so make use of the all_unreclaimable logic as well: don't consider going OOM until all zones we're interested in are unreclaimable. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/vmscan.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~oom-use-unreclaimable-info mm/vmscan.c --- a/mm/vmscan.c~oom-use-unreclaimable-info +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ struct scan_control { int swap_cluster_max; int swappiness; + + int all_unreclaimable; }; /* @@ -925,6 +927,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zones(int pr unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0; int i; + sc->all_unreclaimable = 1; for (i = 0; zones[i] != NULL; i++) { struct zone *zone = zones[i]; @@ -941,6 +944,8 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zones(int pr if (zone->all_unreclaimable && priority != DEF_PRIORITY) continue; /* Let kswapd poll it */ + sc->all_unreclaimable = 0; + nr_reclaimed += shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc); } return nr_reclaimed; @@ -1021,6 +1026,9 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct z if (sc.nr_scanned && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2) blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10); } + /* top priority shrink_caches still had more to do? don't OOM, then */ + if (!sc.all_unreclaimable) + ret = 1; out: for (i = 0; zones[i] != 0; i++) { struct zone *zone = zones[i]; _