On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Currently oom_killer_disabled is only used in __alloc_pages_slowpath, > For page fault oom case it is not considered. One use case is > virtio balloon driver, when memory pressure is high, virtio ballooning > will cause oom killing due to such as page fault oom. Other mm guys already accepted but sorry I can't understand your point since I am not familiar with virtio. Now oom_killer_disabled is used by only hibernation and hibernation freezes processes so page fault shouldn't happen. Now are you using oom_killer_disabled in virtio? Could you elaborate use case ? Thanks. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>