Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: Add __GFP_NO_OOM_KILL flag

Andrew Morton
2009-05-11T23:07:04Z

On Tue, 12 May 2009 00:44:36 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw-KKrjLPT3xs0@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Which means this patch:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124165031723627 (it also is my favourite
> one).

ho hum, I could live with that ;)

Would it make sense to turn it into something more general? Instead of
"tasks_frozen/processes_are_frozen()", present it as
"oom_killer_disabled/oom_killer_is_disabled()"?

That would invite other subsystems to use it, if they want to. Which
might well be a bad thing on their behalf, hard to say..