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SubjectRe: [patch] 2.5: kill PF_MEMDIE
On 25 Nov 2002, Robert Love wrote:

> PF_MEMDIE seems to serve no needed purpose in 2.5. In fact, it seems it
> has no point in 2.4, either.

Actually it does. If the task that's being OOM killed is in
try_to_free_pages() it'll clear PF_MEMALLOC before going back
into __alloc_pages() and it might not die.

Rik
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