From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96A36B013A for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 19:01:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from zps37.corp.google.com (zps37.corp.google.com [172.25.146.37]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id n4DN1qaD008836 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 00:01:52 +0100 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wafl35.prod.google.com [10.114.188.35]) by zps37.corp.google.com with ESMTP id n4DN1nnw008158 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 16:01:50 -0700 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id l35so331817waf.24 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 16:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 16:01:47 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm, PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are frozen In-Reply-To: <20090513154726.0786a27d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <200905070040.08561.rjw@sisk.pl> <200905101548.57557.rjw@sisk.pl> <200905131032.53624.rjw@sisk.pl> <200905131037.50011.rjw@sisk.pl> <20090513154726.0786a27d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: rjw@sisk.pl, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, fengguang.wu@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz, nigel@tuxonice.net, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 13 May 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This allows __GFP_NOFAIL allocations to fail. > > I think that's OK - oom_killer_disable() and __GFP_NOFAIL are > fundamentally incompatible, and __GFP_NOFAIL is a crock. > Ok, so we need some documentation of that or some notification that we're allowing an allocation to fail that has been specified to "retry infinitely [because] the caller cannot handle allocation failures." -- 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