From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:16:38 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 (repost)] mm: serialize OOM kill operations Message-Id: <20060428151638.32ca188e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200604281459.27895.dsp@llnl.gov> References: <200604271308.10080.dsp@llnl.gov> <20060427155613.15d565b1.akpm@osdl.org> <200604281459.27895.dsp@llnl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Dave Peterson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@surriel.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, ak@suse.de, pj@sgi.com List-ID: Dave Peterson wrote: > > Yes I am familiar with this sort of problem. :-) Andrea has long advocated that the memory allocator shouldn't infinitely loop for small __GFP_WAIT allocations. ie: ultimately we should return NULL back to the caller. Usually this will cause the correct process to exit. Sometimes it won't. Did you try it? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org