linux-kernel - Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH 3/4] mecg: fix oom flag at THP charge

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Date:	Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:50:35 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"hannes@...xchg.org" <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	"balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH 3/4] mecg: fix oom flag at THP charge

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:39:12 +0900
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:27:29 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Thanks to Johanns and Daisuke for suggestion.
> > =
> > Hugepage allocation shouldn't trigger oom.
> > Allocation failure is not fatal.
> > 
> > Orignal-patch-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> > Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> IIUC, this patch isn't necessary because we don't go into oom
> in "page_size > PAGE_SIZE" case after [2/4].
> But I think it's not so bad to show explicitly that we don't cause oom in
> THP charge.
> 
> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
> 

Thank you for clarification.

-Kame


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