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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Unending loop in __alloc_pages_slowpath following OOM-kill; rfc:
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On 05/20/2011 12:49 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:

> From: Andrew Barry<abarry@cray.com>
>
> I believe I found a problem in __alloc_pages_slowpath, which allows a process to
> get stuck endlessly looping, even when lots of memory is available.

> Signed-off-by: Andrew Barry<abarry@cray.com>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim<minchan.kim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman<mgorman@suse.de>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>

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