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-rw-r--r--lib/rhashtable.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index 238c8daa9852..310e29b51507 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -178,10 +178,11 @@ static struct bucket_table *bucket_table_alloc(struct rhashtable *ht,
size = nbuckets;
- if (tbl == NULL && gfp != GFP_KERNEL) {
+ if (tbl == NULL && (gfp & ~__GFP_NOFAIL) != GFP_KERNEL) {
tbl = nested_bucket_table_alloc(ht, nbuckets, gfp);
nbuckets = 0;
}
+
if (tbl == NULL)
return NULL;
@@ -1057,9 +1058,16 @@ int rhashtable_init(struct rhashtable *ht,
}
}
+ /*
+ * This is api initialization and thus we need to guarantee the
+ * initial rhashtable allocation. Upon failure, retry with the
+ * smallest possible size with __GFP_NOFAIL semantics.
+ */
tbl = bucket_table_alloc(ht, size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (tbl == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (unlikely(tbl == NULL)) {
+ size = max_t(u16, ht->p.min_size, HASH_MIN_SIZE);
+ tbl = bucket_table_alloc(ht, size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+ }
atomic_set(&ht->nelems, 0);