On Fri 16-12-16 17:15:56, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > Logic on whether we can reap pages from the VMA should match what we > have in madvise_dontneed(). In particular, we should skip, VM_PFNMAP > VMAs, but we don't now. > > Let's just call madvise_dontneed() from __oom_reap_task_mm(), so we > won't need to sync the logic in the future. I would rather extract those check into can_madv_dontneed_vma() and use it in the oom reaper. I am really woried about notifier API which can sleep or rely on locks or do whatever else. -- 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>