Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] cpusets: do not allow TIF_MEMDIE tasks to allocate globally | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:03:17 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 01:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:56:10 -0700 Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote: > > > David wrote: > > > That is, unless you can guarantee this type of problem will not happen again > > > > Well, I certainly cannot guarantee that. > > The only place I can think of where the kernel will sit there allocating > huge amounts of memory like this is in readahead.
We just created one more, the execve string copy. However that uses get_user_pages(), so if that gets fixed we're save there too.
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