Re: maple tree change made it possible for VMA iteration to see same VMA twice due to late vma_merge() failure

From: Jann Horn
Date: Tue Aug 15 2023 - 15:46:03 EST

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On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 9:36 PM Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think - my understanding is that the kernel will basically kill
> every process on the system except for init before it starts failing
> GFP_KERNEL allocations that fit within a single slab, unless the

s/slab/page/

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