Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: the new VMt | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:09:31 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > Indeed. But we wont fail the kmalloc with a NULL return > > Isn't that the preferred behaviour, though? If we are completely out > of VM on a no-swap machine, we should be killing one of the existing > processes rather than preventing any progress and keeping all of the > old tasks alive but deadlocked.
Unless Im missing something we wont kill any task in that condition - even a SIGKILL will make no odds as everyone is asleep in kmalloc
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