Re: [patch] cpusets: do not allow TIF_MEMDIE tasks to allocateglobally

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:56:10 -0700 Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> David wrote:
> > That is, unless you can guarantee this type of problem will not happen again
> 
> Well, I certainly cannot guarantee that.

The only place I can think of where the kernel will sit there allocating
huge amounts of memory like this is in readahead.
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