Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:16:54 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: OOM behavior in constrained memory situations |
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> At least remnants from my old 80% hack to avoid this (huge_page_needed) > seem to be still there in mainline: > > fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:hugetlbfs_file_mmap > > bytes = huge_pages_needed(mapping, vma); > if (!is_hugepage_mem_enough(bytes)) > return -ENOMEM; > > > So something must be broken if this doesn't work. Or did you allocate > the pages in some other way?
huge pages are now allocated in the huge fault handler. If it would be returning an OOM then the OOM killer may be activated. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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