Re: Unending loop in __alloc_pages_slowpath following OOM-kill; rfc:patch.

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Fri May 20 2011 - 13:17:18 EST


On 05/20/2011 12:49 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:

From: Andrew Barry<abarry@xxxxxxxx>

I believe I found a problem in __alloc_pages_slowpath, which allows a process to
get stuck endlessly looping, even when lots of memory is available.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Barry<abarry@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim<minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman<mgorman@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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