Re: Page allocation failures in guest

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/12/2009 11:22 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > > Will it still trigger the OOM killer with this patch, or will things
> > > behave slightly more gracefully?
> > >
> > >        
> > I don't think you mentioned the OOM killer in your original report?  Did
> > it trigger?
> >
> >      
>
> I might have things backwards here, but I though the OOM killer started
> doing its dirty business once you got that memory allocation failure
> dump.
>    

I don't think the oom killer should trigger on GFP_ATOMIC failures, but 
don't know for sure.  If you don't have a trace saying it picked a task 
to kill, it probably didn't.

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