Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes

[Rahul Karnik]

Rusty Lynch wrote:
> The patch below uses a notifier list for other components to register
> to be called when an out of memory condition occurs.

How does this interact with the overcommit handling? Doesn't strict 
overcommit also not oom, but rather return a memory allocation error? 
Could we not add another overcommit mode where oom conditions cause a 
kernel panic?

Thanks,
Rahul

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