On Thu, 7 May 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Unfortunately it fails too quickly with the combination as well, so it looks > like we can't use __GFP_NORETRY during hibernation. > If you know that no other tasks are in the oom killer at suspend time, you can do what I mentioned earlier: struct zone *z; for_each_populated_zone(z) zone_set_flag(z, ZONE_OOM_LOCKED); and then later for_each_populated_zone(z) zone_clear_flag(z, ZONE_OOM_LOCKED); The only race there is if a task is currently in the oom killer and will subsequently clear ZONE_OOM_LOCKED for its zonelist. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html