Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Aug 2013 17:59:24 -0400 | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/6] arch: mm: do not invoke OOM killer on kernel fault OOM |
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 02:58:05PM -0400, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > (7/25/13 6:25 PM), Johannes Weiner wrote: > > Kernel faults are expected to handle OOM conditions gracefully (gup, > > uaccess etc.), so they should never invoke the OOM killer. Reserve > > this for faults triggered in user context when it is the only option. > > > > Most architectures already do this, fix up the remaining few. > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> > > OK. but now almost all arch have the same page fault handler. So, I think > we can implement arch generic page fault handler in future. Ah, ok, never > mind if you are not interest.
Well, I'm already working towards it ;-) Still a long way to go, though to fully replace them with generic code...
> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Thanks!
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