Re: Configurable OOM killer Re: old oom-vm for 2.4.32 (was oomkiller in 2.4.23)

[Kristian Peters]

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
> The following patch makes OOM killer configurable (its the same as the 
> other patches posted except its around CONFIG_OOM_KILLER).
> 
> I hope the Configure.help entry is clear enough.

What about the PF_MEMDIE issues Andrea has argued ? Are they solved by the added code in page_alloc.c ?

As Andrea has pointed out earlier, a yield() after out_of_memory() is safe and should be added too.

I'd really like to see that config-option in 2.4.24.

*Kristian
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