Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage

Hugh Dickins
2004-11-06T09:48:20Z

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> all allocations should have a failure path to avoid deadlocks. But in
> the meantime __GFP_REPEAT is at least localizing the problematic places ;)

Problematic, yes: don't overlook that GFP_REPEAT and GFP_NOFAIL _can_
fail, returning NULL: when the process is being OOM-killed (PF_MEMDIE).

Hugh