From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: FYI: mmap_sem OOM patch
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:14:17 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100713091333.EA3E.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1007121446500.8468@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
> 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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-13 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-07 23:11 Michel Lespinasse
2010-07-08 0:16 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-08 1:11 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-08 9:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-08 9:24 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-08 9:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-08 9:51 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-08 10:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <AANLkTimLSnNot2byTWYuIHE8rhGLXbl1zKsQQhmci1Do@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-08 10:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-08 10:57 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-08 11:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-08 11:06 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-08 11:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09 1:31 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-12 21:47 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-13 0:14 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2010-07-13 21:08 ` David Rientjes
[not found] ` <AANLkTimArLPHrxHNEejiXKNYk9To6qsjglbgzyypXP-c@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-08 12:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
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