Re: mm allocation failure and hang when running xfstests generic/269 on xfs

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 02-03-17 19:04:48, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
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> So, commit 5d17a73a2ebeb8d1("vmalloc: back off when the current task is
> killed") implemented __GFP_KILLABLE flag and automatically applied that
> flag. As a result, those who are not ready to fail upon SIGKILL are
> confused. ;-)

You are right! The function is documented it might fail but the code
doesn't really allow that. This seems like a bug to me. What do you
think about the following?
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