Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:27:38 +0200 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/3 -mmotm] oom: invoke oom killer for __GFP_NOFAIL |
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On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:56:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 18:31:14 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote: > Do we know of any callsites which do greater-than-order-0 allocations > with GFP_NOFAIL? If so, we should fix them.
Yeah, we have GFP_NOFAIL going to the slab allocator, so all bets are off in regard to the order.
Hmm, checkpatch should warn about it too shouldn't it? We recently acquired one right on the IO submission path, unfortunately.
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