Re: Page allocation failures in guest

Avi Kivity
2009-08-12T08:35:53Z

On 08/12/2009 11:22 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote:
>>
>>> Will it still trigger the OOM killer with this patch, or will things
>>> behave slightly more gracefully?
>>>
>>>
>> I don't think you mentioned the OOM killer in your original report? Did
>> it trigger?
>>
>>
>
> I might have things backwards here, but I though the OOM killer started
> doing its dirty business once you got that memory allocation failure
> dump.
>

I don't think the oom killer should trigger on GFP_ATOMIC failures, but
don't know for sure. If you don't have a trace saying it picked a task
to kill, it probably didn't.

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