From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: pj@sgi.com, clameter@engr.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 13:39:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060208133909.183f19ea.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602082221.35671.ak@suse.de>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 22:03, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > > I don't think you really want to open a full scale "is the oom killer needed"
> > > thread. Check the archives - there have been some going on for months.
> > >
> > > But I think we can agree that together with mbind the oom killer is pretty
> > > useless, can't we?
> >
> > Excellent points.
> >
> > I approve this patch.
>
> I think it should be put into 2.6.16. Andrew?
Does every single caller of __alloc_pages(__GFP_FS) correctly handle a NULL
return? I doubt it, in which case this patch will cause oopses and hangs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-08 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-08 18:05 Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 18:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 18:34 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 18:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 19:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 19:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 18:33 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 18:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 18:57 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 19:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 19:05 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 20:22 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 20:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 20:55 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 21:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 21:03 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 21:21 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 21:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-02-08 22:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 22:41 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 23:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-08 22:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 23:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 23:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-08 23:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-08 23:57 ` Andi Kleen
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2006-02-08 20:14 linux
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