Re: [PATCH 1/2 (repost)] mm: serialize OOM kill operations

[Andrew Morton]

Dave Peterson <dsp@xxxxxxxx> 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?
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