Re: FYI: mmap_sem OOM patch

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 20:06 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > [ small note on that we really should kill __GFP_NOFAIL, its utter
> > > deadlock potential ]
> > 
> > I disagree. __GFP_NOFAIL mean this allocation failure can makes really
> > dangerous result. Instead, OOM-Killer should try to kill next process.
> > I think. 
> 
> Say _what_?! you think NOFAIL is a sane thing? 

insane obviously ;)
but as far as my experience, some embedded system prefer to use NOFAIL.
So, I don't like to make big hammer crash. NOFAIL killing need long year
rather than you expected, I guess.


> Pretty much everybody has
> been agreeing for years that the thing should die.

I'm not against this at all. but until it die, it should works correctly.


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