Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:13:48 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist |
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > > If the caller gets oom-killed, the allocation attempt fails. Callers need > to handle that.
I actually disagree. I think we should just admit that we can always free up enough space to get a few pages, in order to then oom-kill things.
This is not a new concept. oom has never been "immediately kill".
Linus
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