Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 May 2009 19:42:35 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch -mmotm] mm: invoke oom killer for __GFP_NOFAIL |
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David Rientjes wrote: > The oom killer must be invoked regardless of the order if the allocation > is __GFP_NOFAIL, otherwise it will loop forever when reclaim fails to > free some memory. > > Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> > Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> > Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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