KVM: MMU: Don't do GFP_NOWAIT allocations
authorAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:28:17 +0000 (11:28 +0300)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:18:27 +0000 (10:18 +0200)
commit2e3e5882dca3ab409aa8c9c96f47610b576719f8
tree53184e9026b67710bd74615b818c53a6b62c3ab4
parentcbdd1bea2a2dce4c0b45c5f0122c150d9f07f0bc
KVM: MMU: Don't do GFP_NOWAIT allocations

Before preempt notifiers, kvm needed to allocate memory with GFP_NOWAIT so
as not to have to enable preemption and take a heavyweight exit.  On oom, we'd
fall back to a GFP_KERNEL allocation.

With preemption notifiers, we can do a GFP_KERNEL allocation, and perform
the heavyweight exit only if the kernel decides to put us to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
drivers/kvm/mmu.c