From: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
riel@surriel.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, ak@suse.de,
pj@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 (repost)] mm: serialize OOM kill operations
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:24:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604281524.19425.dsp@llnl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060428151638.32ca188e.akpm@osdl.org>
On Friday 28 April 2006 15:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov> wrote:
> > Yes I am familiar with this sort of problem. :-)
>
> Andrea has long advocated that the memory allocator shouldn't infinitely
> loop for small __GFP_WAIT allocations. ie: ultimately we should return
> NULL back to the caller.
>
> Usually this will cause the correct process to exit. Sometimes it won't.
>
> Did you try it?
Haven't tried it yet. Sounds like a good idea.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-27 20:08 [PATCH 1/2 (repost)] mm: serialize OOM kill operations Dave Peterson
2006-04-27 20:44 ` Paul Jackson
2006-04-27 21:09 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-27 21:32 ` Dave Peterson
2006-04-27 23:02 ` Paul Jackson
2006-04-28 22:09 ` Dave Peterson
2006-04-27 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-28 21:59 ` Dave Peterson
2006-04-28 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-28 22:24 ` Dave Peterson [this message]
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