Re: FYI: mmap_sem OOM patch

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> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> 
> > I disagree. __GFP_NOFAIL mean this allocation failure can makes really
> > dangerous result. Instead, OOM-Killer should try to kill next process.
> > I think.
> > 
> 
> That's not what happens, __alloc_pages_high_priority() will loop forever 
> for __GFP_NOFAIL, the oom killer is never recalled.

Yup, please reread the discusstion.

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