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Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Remove PF_MEMDIE as it is redundant
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>
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       Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 17:47, Juan Quintela wrote:

>         PF_MEMDIE don't have any use in current kernels.  Please
>         remove, we only set it in one place, and there we also set
>         PF_MEMALLOC.  And we only test it in other place, and we also
>         test for PF_MEMALLOC.  This patch has existed in aa for some
>         quite time.

I independently thought this same thing, and did a patch for 2.5 which
had the same effect.

I was reminded by better-VM-hackers-than-I that PF_MEMALLOC can be
cleared in various paths so the PF_MEMDIE is required to ensure that the
check in page_alloc.c is always true for OOM'ed tasks.

	Robert Love

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