Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 May 2009 16:01:47 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm, PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are frozen |
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On Wed, 13 May 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > This allows __GFP_NOFAIL allocations to fail. > > I think that's OK - oom_killer_disable() and __GFP_NOFAIL are > fundamentally incompatible, and __GFP_NOFAIL is a crock. >
Ok, so we need some documentation of that or some notification that we're allowing an allocation to fail that has been specified to "retry infinitely [because] the caller cannot handle allocation failures."
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