On Mon 23-05-16 14:06:20, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > I have completely missed a potential interaction with > __GFP_NOFAIL. We even do not seem to trigger the memcg OOM killer for > these requests to sort the situation out. Which is intentional. a0d8b00a3381 ("mm: memcg: do not declare OOM from __GFP_NOFAIL allocations") -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>