Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752956Ab0GMAOW (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:14:22 -0400 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:53295 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752546Ab0GMAOV (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:14:21 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: David Rientjes Subject: Re: FYI: mmap_sem OOM patch Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Peter Zijlstra , Michel Lespinasse , linux-mm , LKML , Divyesh Shah , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: References: <20100708200324.CD4B.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-Id: <20100713091333.EA3E.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:14:17 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 17 > On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > > I disagree. __GFP_NOFAIL mean this allocation failure can makes really > > dangerous result. Instead, OOM-Killer should try to kill next process. > > I think. > > > > That's not what happens, __alloc_pages_high_priority() will loop forever > for __GFP_NOFAIL, the oom killer is never recalled. Yup, please reread the discusstion. -- 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/