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    SubjectRe: [RFC][Patch v9 0/6] KVM: Guest Free Page Hinting
    On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 10:00:05AM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
    > I have been thinking about this. Instead of stealing the page couldn't
    > you simply flag it that there is a hint in progress and simply wait in
    > arch_alloc_page until the hint has been processed? The problem is in
    > stealing pages you are going to introduce false OOM issues when the
    > memory isn't available because it is being hinted on.

    Can we not give them back in an OOM notifier?

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    MST

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