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From: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 (repost)] mm: serialize OOM kill operations
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:24:19 -0700
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On Friday 28 April 2006 15:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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?

Haven't tried it yet.  Sounds like a good idea.