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Message-ID: <20090812102225.5a2e2305@mjolnir.ossman.eu>
Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:22:25 +0200
From:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Page allocation failures in guest

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:43:46 +0300
Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> wrote:

> On 08/12/2009 09:19 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > Will it still trigger the OOM killer with this patch, or will things
> > behave slightly more gracefully?
> >    
> 
> I don't think you mentioned the OOM killer in your original report?  Did 
> it trigger?
> 

I might have things backwards here, but I though the OOM killer started
doing its dirty business once you got that memory allocation failure
dump.

Rgds
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