On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:30:02PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > Isnt this also a constrained allocation? We could expand the check to also
> > > catch these types of restrictions and fail.
> >
> > No, it uses the full fallback zone list of the target node, not a custom
> > one. Would be hard to detect without a flag.
Right but it specifies in its flags that not all system memory can satisfy
this particular memory request. That fact may be detected by the
out_of_memory() function. We could do something special there instead of
OOMing.
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