Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH 3/4] mecg: fix oom flag at THP charge

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:39:12 +0900
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:27:29 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Thanks to Johanns and Daisuke for suggestion.
> > =
> > Hugepage allocation shouldn't trigger oom.
> > Allocation failure is not fatal.
> > 
> > Orignal-patch-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> IIUC, this patch isn't necessary because we don't go into oom
> in "page_size > PAGE_SIZE" case after [2/4].
> But I think it's not so bad to show explicitly that we don't cause oom in
> THP charge.
> 
> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Thank you for clarification.

-Kame


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