From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BF66B02A3 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:48:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kpbe12.cbf.corp.google.com (kpbe12.cbf.corp.google.com [172.25.105.76]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id o6CLm1SY002403 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:48:02 -0700 Received: from pzk30 (pzk30.prod.google.com [10.243.19.158]) by kpbe12.cbf.corp.google.com with ESMTP id o6CLlx2D020005 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:48:00 -0700 Received: by pzk30 with SMTP id 30so1220354pzk.1 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:47:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:47:54 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: FYI: mmap_sem OOM patch In-Reply-To: <20100708200324.CD4B.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-ID: References: <20100708195421.CD48.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <1278586921.1900.67.camel@laptop> <20100708200324.CD4B.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Michel Lespinasse , linux-mm , LKML , Divyesh Shah , Ingo Molnar List-ID: 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. -- 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