From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758700AbXFFIAd (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 04:00:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753668AbXFFIAX (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 04:00:23 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:43869 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751244AbXFFIAV (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 04:00:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:00:02 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Paul Jackson Cc: David Rientjes , peterz@infradead.org, ak@suse.de, clameter@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] cpusets: do not allow TIF_MEMDIE tasks to allocate globally Message-Id: <20070606010002.2ff6fc98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070606005610.a8c783ce.pj@sgi.com> References: <1181110846.7348.154.camel@twins> <1181113753.7348.164.camel@twins> <20070606003421.1107a8bf.pj@sgi.com> <20070606005610.a8c783ce.pj@sgi.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:56:10 -0700 Paul Jackson wrote: > David wrote: > > That is, unless you can guarantee this type of problem will not happen again > > Well, I certainly cannot guarantee that. The only place I can think of where the kernel will sit there allocating huge amounts of memory like this is in readahead.