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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: irq lock inversion
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:13:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257610412.4108.3.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0911061159450.5187@V090114053VZO-1>

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 12:03 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Atomic allocs are allowed to fail.

All allocs (except __GFP_NOFAIL, but those are a deadlock waiting to
happen) are allowed to fail, !__GFP_WAIT allocs simply fail more easily.

The fact that __GFP_WAIT && order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER allocations
currently don't fail but keep hammering the allocator could be
considered a bug (the recent OOM threads in fact suggest this is a
serious issue for some people).


  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-07 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <86802c440911041008q4969b9bdk15b4598c40bb84bd@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <4AF25FC7.4000502@kernel.org>
     [not found]   ` <20091105082102.GA2870@elte.hu>
     [not found]     ` <4AF28D7A.6020209@kernel.org>
2009-11-05 14:31       ` irq lock inversion Jiri Kosina
2009-11-06  5:53         ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-06  7:17           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-06  7:45             ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-06  7:58               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-06  8:24                 ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-06  8:40                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-06  8:52                     ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-06 16:08                       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-06 16:38                         ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-06 17:03                           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-07 16:13                             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-11-09  5:46                               ` [PATCH percpu#for-linus] percpu: fix possible deadlock via " Tejun Heo
2009-11-06  9:59             ` Jens Axboe
2009-11-08  9:38               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-09 15:34                 ` Jens Axboe
2009-11-09 15:45                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-09 15:49                     ` Jens Axboe

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