Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935428Ab1ETRRO (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2011 13:17:14 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35019 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933727Ab1ETRRN (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2011 13:17:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4DD6A20B.3070800@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:16:59 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Fedora/3.1.9-0.38.b3pre.fc13 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Minchan Kim CC: Andrew Barry , Andrew Morton , linux-mm , Mel Gorman , KOSAKI Motohiro , Johannes Weiner , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: Unending loop in __alloc_pages_slowpath following OOM-kill; rfc: patch. References: <4DCDA347.9080207@cray.com> <4DD2991B.5040707@cray.com> <20110520164924.GB2386@barrios-desktop> In-Reply-To: <20110520164924.GB2386@barrios-desktop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 683 Lines: 20 On 05/20/2011 12:49 PM, Minchan Kim wrote: > From: Andrew Barry > > I believe I found a problem in __alloc_pages_slowpath, which allows a process to > get stuck endlessly looping, even when lots of memory is available. > Signed-off-by: Andrew Barry > Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim > Cc: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed -- 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/