From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
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 15:16:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060428151638.32ca188e.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604281459.27895.dsp@llnl.gov>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-28 22:19 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2006-04-28 22:24 ` Dave Peterson
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