linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are frozen

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Date:	Thu, 07 May 2009 09:00:43 +1000
From:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...onice.net>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are
 frozen

Hi.

On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 00:41 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> 
> The OOM killer is not really going to work while tasks are frozen, so
> we can just give up calling it in that case.
> 
> This will allow us to safely use memory allocations for decreasing
> the number of saveable pages in the hibernation core code instead of
> using any artificial memory shriking mechanisms for this purpose.

Should we disable the warning that the nopage path gives if tasks are
frozen? I'm in two minds - if you get problems as a result, it might
help to diagnose them. On the other hand, you don't want tons of
warnings due to the hibernation code trying to allocate memory it can't
get. In TuxOnIce, I currently do all allocations with __GFP_NOWARN.

Regards,

Nigel

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