Re: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Add set/clear_current_oom_origin() during allocations

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 16:59:18 -0700
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Happy to try anything else, BTW when the si_mem_available check
> enabled, this doesn't happen and the buffer_size_kb write fails
> normally without hurting anything else.

Can you remove the RETRY_MAYFAIL and see if you can try again? It may
be that we just remove that, and if si_mem_available() is wrong, it
will kill the process :-/ My original code would only add MAYFAIL if it
was a kernel thread (which is why I created the mflags variable).

-- Steve