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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 18:40:07 -0200 (BRDT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@f-secure.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reserved root VM + OOM killer
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:

>    - OOM killing takes place only in do_page_fault() [no two places in
>         the kernel for process killing]

... disable OOM killing for non-x86 architectures.
This doesn't seem like a smart move ;)

> diff -urw linux-2.2.18pre21/arch/i386/mm/Makefile linux/arch/i386/mm/Makefile
> --- linux-2.2.18pre21/arch/i386/mm/Makefile	Fri Nov  1 04:56:43 1996
> +++ linux/arch/i386/mm/Makefile	Tue Nov 21 03:03:15 2000
> @@ -8,6 +8,6 @@
>  # Note 2! The CFLAGS definition is now in the main makefile...
> 
>  O_TARGET := mm.o
> -O_OBJS	 := init.o fault.o ioremap.o extable.o
> +O_OBJS	 := init.o fault.o ioremap.o extable.o ../../../mm/oom_kill.o
> 
>  include $(TOPDIR)/Rules.make

Rik
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