linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm, PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are frozen

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 15:35:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
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>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...onice.net>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm, PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are
 frozen

On Wed, 13 May 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -175,6 +175,8 @@ static void set_pageblock_migratetype(st
>  					PB_migrate, PB_migrate_end);
>  }
>  
> +bool oom_killer_disabled __read_mostly;
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
>  static int page_outside_zone_boundaries(struct zone *zone, struct page *page)
>  {
> @@ -1600,6 +1602,9 @@ nofail_alloc:
>  		if (page)
>  			goto got_pg;
>  	} else if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)) {
> +		if (oom_killer_disabled)
> +			goto nopage;
> +
>  		if (!try_set_zone_oom(zonelist, gfp_mask)) {
>  			schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
>  			goto restart;

This allows __GFP_NOFAIL allocations to fail.
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