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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:08:58 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: the new VM
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:02:58PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > Sorry I totally disagree. If GFP_KERNEL are garanteeded to succeed
> > that is a showstopper bug. [...]
> 
> why?

Because as you said the machine can lockup when you run out of memory.

> FYI, i havent put it there.

Ok.

Andrea
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