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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:43:29 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: [13/13] use __GFP_NOKILL in grab_cache_page
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grab_cache_page() may be failed instead of killing innocent tasks.


diff -urN linux-2.5.33/mm/filemap.c linux-2.5.33-mm5/mm/filemap.c
--- linux-2.5.33/mm/filemap.c	2002-09-04 04:02:00.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.5.33-mm5/mm/filemap.c	2002-09-08 20:04:53.000000000 -0700
@@ -1278,7 +1278,7 @@
 	page = find_lock_page(mapping, index);
 	if (!page) {
 		if (!*cached_page) {
-			*cached_page = page_cache_alloc(mapping);
+			*cached_page = alloc_page(mapping->gfp_mask | __GFP_NOKILL);
 			if (!*cached_page)
 				return NULL;
 		}
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