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    SubjectRe: [patch -mm 8/9 v2] oom: avoid oom killer for lowmem allocations
    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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