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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 6/7 -mm] oom: avoid oom killer for lowmem allocations
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:13:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B7383D5.2080904@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002100229410.8001@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On 02/10/2010 11:32 AM, David Rientjes wrote:

> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1914,6 +1914,9 @@ rebalance:
>   	 * running out of options and have to consider going OOM
>   	 */
>   	if (!did_some_progress) {
> +		/* The oom killer won't necessarily free lowmem */
> +		if (high_zoneidx<  ZONE_NORMAL)
> +			goto nopage;
>   		if ((gfp_mask&  __GFP_FS)&&  !(gfp_mask&  __GFP_NORETRY)) {
>   			if (oom_killer_disabled)
>   				goto nopage;

Are there architectures that only have one memory zone?

s390 or one of the other virtualized-only architectures perhaps?

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-11  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-10 16:32 [patch 0/7 -mm] oom killer rewrite David Rientjes
2010-02-10 16:32 ` [patch 1/7 -mm] oom: filter tasks not sharing the same cpuset David Rientjes
2010-02-10 17:08   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-11 23:52   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-02-15  2:56   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-15 22:06     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-16  4:52       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-16  6:01         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-16  7:03         ` Nick Piggin
2010-02-16  8:49           ` David Rientjes
2010-02-16  9:04             ` Nick Piggin
2010-02-16  9:10               ` David Rientjes
2010-02-16  8:46         ` David Rientjes
2010-02-10 16:32 ` [patch 2/7 -mm] oom: sacrifice child with highest badness score for parent David Rientjes
2010-02-10 20:52   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-12  0:00   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-02-12  0:15     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-13  2:49   ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-15  3:08   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-10 16:32 ` [patch 3/7 -mm] oom: select task from tasklist for mempolicy ooms David Rientjes
2010-02-10 22:47   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-15  5:03   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-15 22:11     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-16  5:15       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-16 21:52         ` David Rientjes
2010-02-17  0:48           ` David Rientjes
2010-02-17  1:13             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-10 16:32 ` [patch 4/7 -mm] oom: badness heuristic rewrite David Rientjes
2010-02-11  4:10   ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-11  9:14     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-11 15:07       ` Nick Bowler
2010-02-11 21:01         ` David Rientjes
2010-02-11 21:43       ` Andrew Morton
2010-02-11 21:51         ` David Rientjes
2010-02-11 22:31           ` Andrew Morton
2010-02-11 22:42             ` David Rientjes
2010-02-11 23:11               ` Andrew Morton
2010-02-11 23:31                 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-11 23:37                   ` Andrew Morton
2010-02-12 13:56       ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-12 21:00         ` David Rientjes
2010-02-13  2:45           ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-15 21:54             ` David Rientjes
2010-02-16 13:14               ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-16 21:41                 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-17  7:41                   ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-17  9:23                     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-17 13:08                       ` Minchan Kim
2010-02-15  8:05   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-10 16:32 ` [patch 5/7 -mm] oom: replace sysctls with quick mode David Rientjes
2010-02-12  0:26   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-02-12  9:58     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-15  8:09   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-15 22:15     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-16  5:25       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-16  9:04         ` David Rientjes
2010-02-10 16:32 ` [patch 6/7 -mm] oom: avoid oom killer for lowmem allocations David Rientjes
2010-02-11  4:13   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-02-11  9:19     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-11 14:08       ` Rik van Riel
2010-02-12  1:28   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-02-12 10:06     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-15  0:09       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-02-15 22:01         ` David Rientjes
2010-02-15  8:29   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-10 16:32 ` [patch 7/7 -mm] oom: remove unnecessary code and cleanup David Rientjes
2010-02-12  0:12   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-02-12  0:21     ` David Rientjes
2010-02-15  8:31       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-02-15  2:51 ` [patch 0/7 -mm] oom killer rewrite KOSAKI Motohiro

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