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SubjectRe: [PATCH] memcg, oom: no oom-kill for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
On Mon 29-04-19 07:37:08, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 5:22 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun 28-04-19 16:56:13, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > > The documentation of __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL clearly mentioned that the
> > > OOM killer will not be triggered and indeed the page alloc does not
> > > invoke OOM killer for such allocations. However we do trigger memcg
> > > OOM killer for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL. Fix that.
> >
> > An example of __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL memcg OOM report would be nice. I
> > thought we haven't been using that flag for memcg allocations yet.
> > But this is definitely good to have addressed.
>
> Actually I am planning to use it for memcg allocations (specifically
> fsnotify allocations).

OK, then articulate it in the changelog please.

> > > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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