On Thu, 7 May 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Third time I'm going to suggest this, and I'd like a response on why it's > > not possible instead of being ignored. > > > > All of your tasks are in D state other than kthreads, right? That means > > they won't be in the oom killer (thus no zones are oom locked), so you can > > easily do this > > > > struct zone *z; > > for_each_populated_zone(z) > > zone_set_flag(z, ZONE_OOM_LOCKED); > > > > and then > > > > for_each_populated_zone(z) > > zone_clear_flag(z, ZONE_OOM_LOCKED); > > > > The serialization is done with trylocks so this will never invoke the oom > > killer because all zones in the allocator's zonelist will be oom locked. > > > > Why does this not work for you? > > Well, it might work too, but why are you insisting? How's it better than > __GFP_NO_OOM_KILL, actually? > Because I agree with Christoph's concerns about needlessly adding additional gfp flags; he was responding to the proposed addition of __GFP_PANIC which could be handled in other much simpler ways just like this flag can as I've shown. -- 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
