linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv1] x86: don't schedule when handling #NM exception

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Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:25:19 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, xen-devel@...ts.xen.org,
	Sarah Newman <srn@...mr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv1] x86: don't schedule when handling #NM exception

On 03/10/2014 10:15 AM, David Vrabel wrote:
>>
>> And what the [Finnish] do you do if GFP_ATOMIC fails?
> 
> The same thing it used to do -- kill the task with SIGKILL.  I haven't
> changed this behaviour.
> 

No, you just made it many orders of magnitude more likely.

	-hpa

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