Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 22:03, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > > I don't think you really want to open a full scale "is the oom killer needed"
> > > thread. Check the archives - there have been some going on for months.
> > >
> > > But I think we can agree that together with mbind the oom killer is pretty
> > > useless, can't we?
> >
> > Excellent points.
> >
> > I approve this patch.
>
> I think it should be put into 2.6.16. Andrew?
Does every single caller of __alloc_pages(__GFP_FS) correctly handle a NULL
return? I doubt it, in which case this patch will cause oopses and hangs.
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