Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:48:58 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
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       KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch -mm 8/9 v2] oom: avoid oom killer for lowmem allocations
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On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:25:22 -0800 (PST)
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> > > I'll add this check to __alloc_pages_may_oom() for the !(gfp_mask & 
> > > __GFP_NOFAIL) path since we're all content with endlessly looping.
> > 
> > Thanks. Yes endlessly looping is far preferable to randomly oopsing
> > or corrupting memory.
> > 
> 
> Here's the new patch for your consideration.
> 

Then, can we take kdump in this endlessly looping situaton ?

panic_on_oom=always + kdump can do that. 

Thanks,
-Kame

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