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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906241246380.3154@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:47:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc: penberg@...helsinki.fi, arjan@...radead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org,
npiggin@...e.de
Subject: Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Your point?
>
> That's the recursive allocation or oom case. Not the normal case at all.
In fact, as the whole comment explains, that case is the "give people
memory _now_, even if we normally wouldn't". The thing is, we can't
recurse into trying to free memory, because we're already in that path.
Linus
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