Re: 5.0-rc kernel hangs on early boot

Mel Gorman
2019-02-13T11:29:48Z

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:25:21AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Thanks Will.
> >
> > While I agree that going OOM early is a problem and would explain why
> > the boosting logic was hit at all, it's still the case that the boosting
> > should not divide by zero. Even if the booting is broken due to a lack
> > of memory, I'd still not prefer to crash due to 1c30844d2dfe272d58c.
>
> Yup, sorry, our previous mails crossed paths. Your patch looks sensible in
> its own right, I'm just left wondering why we're OOM so early during boot!
>

I completely agree that it's worth pinning down both issues.

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Mel Gorman
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