Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Feb 2006 13:39:09 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation |
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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 February 2006 22:03, Paul Jackson wrote: > > > I don't think you really want to open a full scale "is the oom killer needed" > > > thread. Check the archives - there have been some going on for months. > > > > > > But I think we can agree that together with mbind the oom killer is pretty > > > useless, can't we? > > > > Excellent points. > > > > I approve this patch. > > I think it should be put into 2.6.16. Andrew?
Does every single caller of __alloc_pages(__GFP_FS) correctly handle a NULL return? I doubt it, in which case this patch will cause oopses and hangs.
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