mm: io_uring: allow oom-killer from io_uring_setup
authorShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Tue, 25 Jan 2022 05:17:36 +0000 (21:17 -0800)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Mon, 7 Feb 2022 15:44:01 +0000 (08:44 -0700)
commit0a3f1e0beacf6cc8ae5f846b0641c1df476e83d6
tree50d13631aa49f0bb59a172c1d27f15699d2aa5ad
parent0d7c1153d9291197c1dc473cfaade77acb874b4b
mm: io_uring: allow oom-killer from io_uring_setup

On an overcommitted system which is running multiple workloads of
varying priorities, it is preferred to trigger an oom-killer to kill a
low priority workload than to let the high priority workload receiving
ENOMEMs. On our memory overcommitted systems, we are seeing a lot of
ENOMEMs instead of oom-kills because io_uring_setup callchain is using
__GFP_NORETRY gfp flag which avoids the oom-killer. Let's remove it and
allow the oom-killer to kill a lower priority job.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220125051736.2981459-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
fs/io_uring.c