linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] use oom_killer_disabled in page fault oom path

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Message-Id: <20110426141949.d9b9aede.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:19:49 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] use oom_killer_disabled in page fault oom path

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:31:50 +0800
Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com> wrote:

> Currently oom_killer_disabled is only used in __alloc_pages_slowpath,
> For page fault oom case it is not considered. One use case is
> virtio balloon driver, when memory pressure is high, virtio ballooning
> will cause oom killing due to such as page fault oom.
> 
> Thus add oom_killer_disabled checking in pagefault_out_of_memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>


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