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diff --git a/include/sys/kmem.h b/include/sys/kmem.h
index 3e5eb204f..fdeba70d1 100644
--- a/include/sys/kmem.h
+++ b/include/sys/kmem.h
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ extern "C" {
/*
* Memory allocation interfaces
*/
-#define KM_SLEEP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL)
+#define KM_SLEEP GFP_KERNEL
#define KM_NOSLEEP GFP_ATOMIC
#undef KM_PANIC /* No linux analog */
#define KM_PUSHPAGE (KM_SLEEP | __GFP_HIGH)
@@ -63,6 +63,51 @@ extern "C" {
# define __GFP_ZERO 0x8000
#endif
+/*
+ * __GFP_NOFAIL looks like it will be removed from the kernel perhaps as
+ * early as 2.6.32. To avoid this issue when it occurs in upstream kernels
+ * we retry the allocation here as long as it is not __GFP_WAIT (GFP_ATOMIC).
+ * I would prefer the caller handle the failure case cleanly but we are
+ * trying to emulate Solaris and those are not the Solaris semantics.
+ */
+static inline void *
+kmalloc_nofail(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ void *ptr;
+
+ do {
+ ptr = kmalloc(size, flags);
+ } while (ptr == NULL && (flags & __GFP_WAIT));
+
+ return ptr;
+}
+
+static inline void *
+kzalloc_nofail(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ void *ptr;
+
+ do {
+ ptr = kzalloc(size, flags);
+ } while (ptr == NULL && (flags & __GFP_WAIT));
+
+ return ptr;
+}
+
+#ifdef HAVE_KMALLOC_NODE
+static inline void *
+kmalloc_node_nofail(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
+{
+ void *ptr;
+
+ do {
+ ptr = kmalloc_node(size, flags, node);
+ } while (ptr == NULL && (flags & __GFP_WAIT));
+
+ return ptr;
+}
+#endif /* HAVE_KMALLOC_NODE */
+
#ifdef DEBUG_KMEM
extern atomic64_t kmem_alloc_used;
@@ -125,16 +170,16 @@ extern void vmem_free_debug(void *ptr, size_t size);
#else /* DEBUG_KMEM */
-# define kmem_alloc(size, flags) kmalloc((size), (flags))
-# define kmem_zalloc(size, flags) kzalloc((size), (flags))
+# define kmem_alloc(size, flags) kmalloc_nofail((size), (flags))
+# define kmem_zalloc(size, flags) kzalloc_nofail((size), (flags))
# define kmem_free(ptr, size) ((void)(size), kfree(ptr))
# ifdef HAVE_KMALLOC_NODE
# define kmem_alloc_node(size, flags, node) \
- kmalloc_node((size), (flags), (node))
+ kmalloc_node_nofail((size), (flags), (node))
# else
# define kmem_alloc_node(size, flags, node) \
- kmalloc((size), (flags))
+ kmalloc_nofail((size), (flags))
# endif
# define vmem_alloc(size, flags) __vmalloc((size), ((flags) | \