Re: FYI: mmap_sem OOM patch

[David Rientjes]

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.
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