On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Nick Piggin wrote: > Oh actually what happened with the pagefault OOM / panic on oom thing? > We were talking around in circles about that too. > The oom killer rewrite attempts to kill current first, if possible, and then will panic if panic_on_oom is set before falling back to selecting a victim. This is consistent with all other architectures such as powerpc that currently do not use pagefault_out_of_memory(). If all architectures are eventually going to be converted to using pagefault_out_of_memory() with additional work on top of -mm, it would be possible to define consistent panic_on_oom semantics for this case. I welcome such an addition since I believe it's a natural extension of panic_on_oom, but I believe it should be done consistently so the sysctl doesn't have different semantics depending on the underlying arch. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>