Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer)

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 07:33:00PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> At the rebalance label, failure will only be delivered when the
> check if (current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_MEMDIE)), otherwise,
> __alloc_pages() retries indefinitely and ignores signals.

Careful not to make too much of ignoring signals, mm/oom_kill.c sets
PF_MEMDIE out-of-context, so when an OOM kill is issued while a task
is looping in __alloc_pages() it will eventually break out of the
rebalance loop due to the flag.


-- wli
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