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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2 (repost)] mm: serialize OOM kill operations
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    On Friday 28 April 2006 15:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov> wrote:
    > > Yes I am familiar with this sort of problem. :-)
    >
    > Andrea has long advocated that the memory allocator shouldn't infinitely
    > loop for small __GFP_WAIT allocations. ie: ultimately we should return
    > NULL back to the caller.
    >
    > Usually this will cause the correct process to exit. Sometimes it won't.
    >
    > Did you try it?

    Haven't tried it yet. Sounds like a good idea.
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