On Monday 04 May 2009, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -1620,7 +1620,8 @@ nofail_alloc:
> > }
> >
> > /* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs so fail */
> > - if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) {
> > + if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER ||
> > + (gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_OOM_KILL)) {
> > clear_zonelist_oom(zonelist, gfp_mask);
> > goto nopage;
> > }
>
> This is inconsistent because __GFP_NO_OOM_KILL now implies __GFP_NORETRY
> (the "goto nopage" above), but only for allocations with __GFP_FS set and
> __GFP_NORETRY clear.
Well, what would you suggest?
Rafael
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