linux-kernel - Re: tty crash due to auto-failing vmalloc

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Date:   Wed, 4 Oct 2017 00:51:27 +0100
From:   Alan Cox <alan@...yncelyn.cymru>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: tty crash due to auto-failing vmalloc

> I think this patch should be reverted. If somebody is vmallocing crazy
> amounts of memory in the exit path we should probably track them down
> individually; the patch doesn't reference any real instances of that.
> But we cannot start failing allocations that have never failed before.
> 
> That said, maybe we want Alan's N_NULL failover in the hangup path too?

I think that would be best. There's always going to be a failure case
even if the vmalloc change makes it rarer. Dropping back to N_NULL fixes
all of the cases.

Alan