Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:16:38 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2 (repost)] mm: serialize OOM kill operations |
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Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov> wrote: > > Yes I am familiar with this sort of problem. :-)
Andrea has long advocated that the memory allocator shouldn't infinitely loop for small __GFP_WAIT allocations. ie: ultimately we should return NULL back to the caller.
Usually this will cause the correct process to exit. Sometimes it won't.
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