On Thu, 7 May 2009 20:09:52 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I'm suspecting that hibernation can allocate its pages with > > > > __GFP_FS|__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOWARN, and the page allocator > > > > will dtrt: no oom-killings. > > > > > > > > In which case, processes_are_frozen() is not needed at all? > > > > > > __GFP_NORETRY alone causes it to fail relatively quickly, but I'll try > > > with > > > the combination. > > > > OK. __GFP_WAIT is the big hammer. > > Unfortunately it fails too quickly with the combination as well, so it looks > like we can't use __GFP_NORETRY during hibernation. hm. So where do we stand now? I'm not a big fan of the global application-specific state change thing. Something like __GFP_NO_OOM_KILL has a better chance of being reused by other subsystems in the future, which is a good indicator. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
