Re: FYI: mmap_sem OOM patch

KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-13T00:14:22Z

> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>
> > I disagree. __GFP_NOFAIL mean this allocation failure can makes really
> > dangerous result. Instead, OOM-Killer should try to kill next process.
> > I think.
> >
>
> That's not what happens, __alloc_pages_high_priority() will loop forever
> for __GFP_NOFAIL, the oom killer is never recalled.

Yup, please reread the discusstion.