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From: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 14:40:29 -0400
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Subject: Re: Kernel falls apart under light memory pressure (i.e. linking vmlinux)
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
        KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        fengguang.wu@intel.com, andi@firstfloor.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mgorman@suse.de, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
        riel@redhat.com
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On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> wrote:
> I just tested 2.6.38.6 with the attached patch. ?It survived dirty_ram
> and test_mempressure without any problems other than slowness, but
> when I hit ctrl-c to stop test_mempressure, I got the attached oom.

Reproduced with CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=n.

--Andy
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