On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 16:27:49 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I understand you don't want GFP_NORETRY. But why is it more important for > > this allocation to succeed than other normal GFP_KERNEL allocations? > > I guess they simply want a failure rather than OOM even when they can > shoot themselves into head by using oom_origin. It is still quite ugly > to see OOM report... Exactly! -- Steve
