Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756189Ab0GHLX3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:23:29 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:35800 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753321Ab0GHLX2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:23:28 -0400 Subject: Re: FYI: mmap_sem OOM patch From: Peter Zijlstra To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Michel Lespinasse , linux-mm , LKML , Divyesh Shah , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <20100708200324.CD4B.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20100708195421.CD48.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <1278586921.1900.67.camel@laptop> <20100708200324.CD4B.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:23:20 +0200 Message-ID: <1278588200.1900.89.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 15 On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 20:06 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > [ small note on that we really should kill __GFP_NOFAIL, its utter > > deadlock potential ] > > I disagree. __GFP_NOFAIL mean this allocation failure can makes really > dangerous result. Instead, OOM-Killer should try to kill next process. > I think. Say _what_?! you think NOFAIL is a sane thing? Pretty much everybody has been agreeing for years that the thing should die. -- 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/