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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core)
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:43:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041210174336.GP2714@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041210173554.GW16322@dualathlon.random>

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:36:14AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Maybe the mm == &init_mm case should return an ERR_PTR also, as that is
>> a sign of a transient error, not cause for a hard panic.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:35:54PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> It can't be a transient error as far as I can tell, it's just like the
> issue of alloc_pages returning NULL (and potentially scheduling first)
> before mounting the root fs.

Well, the only way I see this happening is the process exiting followed
by use_mm() on init_mm for unobvious reasons (perhaps reasons not in
the tree).


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-10 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-01  9:49 [PATCH] oom killer (Core) tglx
2004-12-01 21:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-01 22:06   ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-01 22:33     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-02  3:36     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-02 11:09       ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 13:48         ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 16:47           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-02 16:55             ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 11:18               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-02 17:17               ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 17:27                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 18:08               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-02 18:29                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 19:01                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 18:55                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 19:07                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 19:08                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 19:22                       ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-02 19:24                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 20:11                           ` Andre Tomt
2004-12-03 22:45                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-02 23:47                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-03 14:41                           ` Helge Hafting
2004-12-03 21:20                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-05 21:14                               ` Helge Hafting
2004-12-02 23:35                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-03  2:28                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-03 22:37                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-03 22:51                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-03 23:08                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 16:36                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 17:35                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 17:43                           ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-12-10 17:55                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 18:00                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 18:15                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 18:19                                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 19:05                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 16:51                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-03 21:10                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-03 22:21                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-05  2:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-05 13:38   ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-05 15:22     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 16:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 16:52   ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-10 17:43     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 17:47     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-10 17:49     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-10 17:57       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-12  0:12         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-24  1:18     ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-01 10:21 tvrtko.ursulin
2004-12-04  7:00 Voluspa
2004-12-04  8:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-04 12:42 Voluspa
2004-12-04 16:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-04 18:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-04 21:02     ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-05  0:27       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-05 14:55         ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-05 15:34           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-05 16:29             ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-12-05  2:22 Voluspa
2004-12-05  8:32 Voluspa

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