Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:48:58 +0900 | From | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <> | Subject | Re: [patch -mm 8/9 v2] oom: avoid oom killer for lowmem allocations |
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On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:25:22 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > I'll add this check to __alloc_pages_may_oom() for the !(gfp_mask & > > > __GFP_NOFAIL) path since we're all content with endlessly looping. > > > > Thanks. Yes endlessly looping is far preferable to randomly oopsing > > or corrupting memory. > > > > Here's the new patch for your consideration. >
Then, can we take kdump in this endlessly looping situaton ?
panic_on_oom=always + kdump can do that.
Thanks, -Kame
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