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Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:20:44 -0600
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] x86, fpu: lazy allocation of FPU area - v3
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Andi Kleen wrote:
>> this is just for handling the case where that fails
>> (basically near/totally OOM or the case where you get a fatal signal)
> 
> I didn't think GFP_KERNEL was interruptible by signals...
> (although sometimes under oom thrashing I think it would be great if it was...) 

we need to make it (or with GFP_KILLABLE); would make total sense...
(so yeah it was more wishful thinking than reality)
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