linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mm/page_alloc: bail out on fatal signal during reclaim/compaction retry attempt

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Message-ID: <20210520133007.ybkc7ft5g5b3d7ds@ava.usersys.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 May 2021 14:30:07 +0100
From:   Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...hat.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        mhocko@...e.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/page_alloc: bail out on fatal signal during
 reclaim/compaction retry attempt

Matthew,

On Thu 2021-05-20 12:56 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> While this is true, it's not really answering Andrew's question.
> What we want as part of the commit message is something like:
> 
> "A customer experienced a low memory situation and sent their task a
> fatal signal.  Instead of dying promptly, it looped in the page
> allocator failing to make progress because ..."

Apologies, I did not understand - I will follow up with a v4.


Kind regards,

-- 
Aaron Tomlin