Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 3 Nov 1998 12:54:36 -0800 (PST) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff |
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Btw, I've been looking at why Andrea thinks he's patches are needed, because I looked very deep and the patches really shouldn't have made any real difference..
The reason - tadaam - is so silly that it's embarrassing. The thing is, that the things that should use GFP_USER don't. They use GFP_KERNEL instead, and that is sufficient to explain all the problems that Andrea saw. Becuase GFP_KERNEL will continue to allow allocations even after the freeing up of another page has failed.
After fixing that in mm/memory.c and mm/filemap.c, the problem seems to be properly fixed.
Linus
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