Hi Hugh,
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> You're supposing that it's tmpfs causing this problem: not at all,
> that's just an easy way to show it. Take away tmpfs, and swapoff
> is still liable to hang, with other tasks OOMing (even when strict
> no-overcommit accounting: I've not yet added the check it needs).
No, I know tmpfs is not faulty :-)
But the hook would give tmpfs the chance to say stop before the mm
layer even tries to do something and where it actually fails to do it
right.
Greetings
Christoph
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