On (06/26/18 07:03), Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > I don't think this is a printk() issue per se, so I think Option B is
> > the only option. You should not get stuck in an infinite loop if we run
> > short on memory. Perhaps we could have an Option C which would exit
> > this loop gracefully with some kind of error. But I haven't looked at
> > the surrounding code to be sure if that is possible.
>
> I suspect this is not even OOM.
Could be. But at the same time it stalls RCU, so OOM at some point
becomes realistic.
-ss
