On Fri 08-02-13 17:29:18, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > OK, I have checked the allocator slow path and you are right even > GFP_KERNEL will not fail. This can lead to similar deadlocks - e.g. > OOM killed task blocked on down_write(mmap_sem) while the page fault > handler holding mmap_sem for reading and allocating a new page without > any progress. And now that I think about it some more it sounds like it shouldn't be possible because allocator would fail because it would see TIF_MEMDIE (OOM killer kills all threads that share the same mm). But maybe there are other locks that are dangerous, but I think that the risk is pretty low. -- 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>