linux-kernel - Re: [patch] mm, oom: remove gfp helper function

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Message-ID: <20141201232343.GA29642@phnom.home.cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2014 18:23:43 -0500
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@...wei.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm, oom: remove gfp helper function

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 02:17:32PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> Commit b9921ecdee66 ("mm: add a helper function to check may oom
> condition") was added because the gfp criteria for oom killing was
> checked in both the page allocator and memcg.
> 
> That was true for about nine months, but then commit 0029e19ebf84 ("mm:
> memcontrol: remove explicit OOM parameter in charge path") removed the
> memcg usecase.
> 
> Fold the implementation into its only caller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
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