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SubjectRe: [patch 08/11 -mmotm] oom: invoke oom killer for __GFP_NOFAIL
On Sun, 10 May 2009 15:07:21 -0700 (PDT)
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> 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.

We should discourage callers from using __GFP_NOFAIL at all. We should
electrocute callers for using __GFP_NOFAIL on large allocations. How's about

WARN_ON_ONCE(order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL));
or, preferably:

WARN_ON_ONCE(order > 0 && (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL));

?


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