Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755357AbZFXUOW (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:14:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751718AbZFXUOP (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:14:15 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:34731 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751306AbZFXUOP (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:14:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:13:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Andrew Morton 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 In-Reply-To: <20090624130121.99321cca.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20090624080753.4f677847@infradead.org> <20090624094622.d0b0fd82.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <84144f020906240955h5e26a248scc61439c1ca36023@mail.gmail.com> <20090624105517.904f93da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4A426825.80905@cs.helsinki.fi> <20090624113037.7d72ed59.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090624120617.1e6799b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090624123624.26c93459.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090624130121.99321cca.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 610 Lines: 18 On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > > If the caller gets oom-killed, the allocation attempt fails. Callers need > to handle that. I actually disagree. I think we should just admit that we can always free up enough space to get a few pages, in order to then oom-kill things. This is not a new concept. oom has never been "immediately kill". Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/