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 15:47:26 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	rjw@...k.pl, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	fengguang.wu@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pavel@....cz,
	nigel@...onice.net, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm, PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are
 frozen

On Wed, 13 May 2009 15:35:32 -0700 (PDT)
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:

> 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.

I think that's OK - oom_killer_disable() and __GFP_NOFAIL are
fundamentally incompatible, and __GFP_NOFAIL is a crock.

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