On Friday 28 April 2006 15:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dave Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yes I am familiar with this sort of problem. :-)
>
> Andrea has long advocated that the memory allocator shouldn't infinitely
> loop for small __GFP_WAIT allocations. ie: ultimately we should return
> NULL back to the caller.
>
> Usually this will cause the correct process to exit. Sometimes it won't.
>
> Did you try it?
Haven't tried it yet. Sounds like a good idea.
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