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-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f7da2a2934b7..cefe6fe8d991 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2606,7 +2606,7 @@ static int default_zonelist_order(void)
* 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;
@@ -2618,6 +2618,15 @@ static int default_zonelist_order(void)
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;
}
}
}