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Date:   Thu, 20 May 2021 14:30:07 +0100
From:   Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/page_alloc: bail out on fatal signal during
 reclaim/compaction retry attempt
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Matthew,

On Thu 2021-05-20 12:56 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> While this is true, it's not really answering Andrew's question.
> What we want as part of the commit message is something like:
> 
> "A customer experienced a low memory situation and sent their task a
> fatal signal.  Instead of dying promptly, it looped in the page
> allocator failing to make progress because ..."

Apologies, I did not understand - I will follow up with a v4.


Kind regards,

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Aaron Tomlin