Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> If the caller gets oom-killed, the allocation attempt fails.  Callers need
> to handle that.

I actually disagree. I think we should just admit that we can always free 
up enough space to get a few pages, in order to then oom-kill things.

This is not a new concept. oom has never been "immediately kill".

			Linus
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