Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core)

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:06:07PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 22:16 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:49:03AM +0100, tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > It gets invoked multiple times [..]
> > 
> > You didn't move the invocation in page_alloc.c which is the major bug I
> > can see (besides the other hacks in oom_kill.c). I'd try fixing the
> > major bug first.
> 
> Where do you want to move it ? 
> 
> I don't buy that moving the invocation to any place will solve the
> problem of multiple invocations.

It has to check the levels of free memory before calling oom_kill.c and
that's the usual check that alloc_pages does.
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