Re: Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation

[Andrew Morton]

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 22:03, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > > I don't think you really want to open a  full scale "is the oom killer needed"
> > > thread. Check the archives - there have been some going on for months.
> > > 
> > > But I think we can agree that together with mbind the oom killer is pretty
> > > useless, can't we?
> > 
> > Excellent points.
> > 
> > I approve this patch.
> 
> I think it should be put into 2.6.16. Andrew?

Does every single caller of __alloc_pages(__GFP_FS) correctly handle a NULL
return?  I doubt it, in which case this patch will cause oopses and hangs.

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