Re: FYI: mmap_sem OOM patch

Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-08T11:23:29Z

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 20:06 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > [ small note on that we really should kill __GFP_NOFAIL, its utter
> > deadlock potential ]
>
> I disagree. __GFP_NOFAIL mean this allocation failure can makes really
> dangerous result. Instead, OOM-Killer should try to kill next process.
> I think.

Say _what_?! you think NOFAIL is a sane thing? Pretty much everybody has
been agreeing for years that the thing should die.