On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> This patch is broken, ignore it.
> Just removing wakeup_bdflush() is indeed correct.
> We already wakeup bdflush at try_to_free_buffers() anyway.
I still feel a bit unconfortable about processes looping forever in
__alloc_pages and because of this oom_killer also can't be moved to page
fault handler where I think its place should be. I'm using the patch
below.
Szaka
--- mm/page_alloc.c.orig Sat Mar 31 19:07:22 2001
+++ mm/page_alloc.c Mon Apr 2 21:05:31 2001
@@ -453,8 +453,12 @@
*/
if (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) {
memory_pressure++;
- try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask);
- wakeup_bdflush(0);
+ if (!try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask));
+ return NULL;
goto try_again;
}
}
-
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