Messages in this thread | | | From | KOSAKI Motohiro <> | Subject | Re: FYI: mmap_sem OOM patch | Date | Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:14:17 +0900 (JST) |
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> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > > I disagree. __GFP_NOFAIL mean this allocation failure can makes really > > dangerous result. Instead, OOM-Killer should try to kill next process. > > I think. > > > > That's not what happens, __alloc_pages_high_priority() will loop forever > for __GFP_NOFAIL, the oom killer is never recalled.
Yup, please reread the discusstion.
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