Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Your point?
> 
> That's the recursive allocation or oom case. Not the normal case at all.

In fact, as the whole comment explains, that case is the "give people 
memory _now_, even if we normally wouldn't". The thing is, we can't 
recurse into trying to free memory, because we're already in that path.

		Linus
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