[PATCH] Use __GFP_REPEAT for cdrom buffer
The cdrom driver does an order-4 allocation and the open will fail if that allocation does not succeed. This happened to me on an unstressed 900MB machine. So add the __GFP_REPEAT flag in there - this will cause the page allocator to keep on freeing pages until the allocation succeeds. It can in theory livelock but in practice I expect it is OK: the user should just stop running dbench or whatever it is which is gobbling all the memory and the mount/open will then succeed.
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