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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:00:02 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, peterz@...radead.org,
ak@...e.de, clameter@...ulhu.engr.sgi.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] cpusets: do not allow TIF_MEMDIE tasks to allocate
globally
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:56:10 -0700 Paul Jackson <pj@....com> wrote:
> David wrote:
> > That is, unless you can guarantee this type of problem will not happen again
>
> Well, I certainly cannot guarantee that.
The only place I can think of where the kernel will sit there allocating
huge amounts of memory like this is in readahead.
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