Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:47:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       cl@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@suse.de
Subject: Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Your point?
> 
> That's the recursive allocation or oom case. Not the normal case at all.

In fact, as the whole comment explains, that case is the "give people 
memory _now_, even if we normally wouldn't". The thing is, we can't 
recurse into trying to free memory, because we're already in that path.

		Linus
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