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First, I can't fathom there will ever be more than a couple of pages in there. If there's an OOM going on, there's probably no shortage of idle time leading up to and during the OOM as threads plow into mutexes and wait for I/O. That's when the work will get handled even more quickly than normal. I suspect it'll work itself out naturally. It wouldn't be hard to toss a counter in there for the list length and dump it at OOM, or pr_info() if it's got more than a few pages on it.