From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Remove PF_MEMDIE as it is redundant
Date: 08 Jan 2003 18:00:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1042066824.694.3634.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r8bn6yxz.fsf@demo.mitica>
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 17:47, Juan Quintela wrote:
> PF_MEMDIE don't have any use in current kernels. Please
> remove, we only set it in one place, and there we also set
> PF_MEMALLOC. And we only test it in other place, and we also
> test for PF_MEMALLOC. This patch has existed in aa for some
> quite time.
I independently thought this same thing, and did a patch for 2.5 which
had the same effect.
I was reminded by better-VM-hackers-than-I that PF_MEMALLOC can be
cleared in various paths so the PF_MEMDIE is required to ensure that the
check in page_alloc.c is always true for OOM'ed tasks.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-08 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-08 22:47 Juan Quintela
2003-01-08 23:00 ` Robert Love [this message]
2003-01-08 23:49 ` Juan Quintela
2003-01-08 23:46 ` Robert Love
2003-01-09 0:01 ` Juan Quintela
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