On Wed, 13 May 2009 15:35:32 -0700 (PDT)
David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 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
> > @@ -175,6 +175,8 @@ static void set_pageblock_migratetype(st
> > PB_migrate, PB_migrate_end);
> > }
> >
> > +bool oom_killer_disabled __read_mostly;
> > +
> > #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
> > static int page_outside_zone_boundaries(struct zone *zone, struct page *page)
> > {
> > @@ -1600,6 +1602,9 @@ nofail_alloc:
> > if (page)
> > goto got_pg;
> > } else if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)) {
> > + if (oom_killer_disabled)
> > + goto nopage;
> > +
> > if (!try_set_zone_oom(zonelist, gfp_mask)) {
> > schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
> > goto restart;
>
> This allows __GFP_NOFAIL allocations to fail.
I think that's OK - oom_killer_disable() and __GFP_NOFAIL are
fundamentally incompatible, and __GFP_NOFAIL is a crock.
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