Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH]: Remove PF_MEMDIE as it is redundant | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 08 Jan 2003 18:00:24 -0500 |
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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
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