Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm, PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are frozen

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On Wed, 13 May 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > 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.
> 

Ok, so we need some documentation of that or some notification that we're 
allowing an allocation to fail that has been specified to "retry 
infinitely [because] the caller cannot handle allocation failures."
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