On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 03:09:09PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > No. You warn and DON'T fail the allocation. Just like lockdep warns of > possible deadlocks but lets you continue. > These will be found in development (mostly) and changed to use > __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL and have appropriate error-handling paths. And when an allocation happens that cannot be satisfied without killing everything off? You do realize there are _lots_ of allocations where userspace has control over the size of the allocation, via e.g. obscure ioctls that ask for a buffer to be filled?
