Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Nov 2004 09:47:56 +0000 (GMT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage |
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On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > all allocations should have a failure path to avoid deadlocks. But in > the meantime __GFP_REPEAT is at least localizing the problematic places ;)
Problematic, yes: don't overlook that GFP_REPEAT and GFP_NOFAIL _can_ fail, returning NULL: when the process is being OOM-killed (PF_MEMDIE).
Hugh
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