Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:05:20 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] use oom_killer_disabled in all oom pathes | From | Dave Young <> |
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:57 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: >> oom_killer_disable should be a global switch, also fit for oom paths >> other than __alloc_pages_slowpath >> >> Here add it to mem_cgroup_handle_oom and pagefault_out_of_memory as well. > > Can you please explain more? Why should? Now oom_killer_disabled is used > only hibernation path. so, Why pagefault and memcg allocation will be happen?
Indeed I'm using it in virtio balloon test, oom killer triggered when memory pressure is high.
literally oom_killer_disabled scope should be global, isn't it?
-- Regards dave
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