[PATCH] drm/etnaviv: don't invoke OOM killer from dump code
Lucas Stach
l.stach at pengutronix.de
Fri Dec 2 10:44:54 UTC 2016
The dumper is only a debugging aid so we don't want to invoke the OOM
killer if buffer for the potentially large GPU state can't be vmalloced.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_dump.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_dump.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_dump.c
index 2bef501d4a17..af65491a78e2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_dump.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_dump.c
@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ void etnaviv_core_dump(struct etnaviv_gpu *gpu)
file_size += sizeof(*iter.hdr) * n_obj;
/* Allocate the file in vmalloc memory, it's likely to be big */
- iter.start = vmalloc(file_size);
+ iter.start = __vmalloc(file_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM |
+ __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY, PAGE_KERNEL);
if (!iter.start) {
dev_warn(gpu->dev, "failed to allocate devcoredump file\n");
return;
--
2.10.2
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