Hi Nick. On Friday 30 June 2006 02:22, Nick Piggin wrote: > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Tuesday 27 June 2006 16:11, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>Nigel Cunningham wrote: > >>>Add paranoia to the page_alloc code to ensure we don't start page > >>> reclaim during suspending. > >> > >>Nack. Set PF_MEMALLOC if you must. > > > > That would work for the thread doing the suspending. What about other > > kernel threads that might run and allocate memory during the cycle > > because of $RANDOM_EVENT? We don't want them triggering memory freeing > > either. > > Haven't you suspended the other threads at this point? > > What are the consequences of allocating memory? Did you see my reply to these questions? Regards, Nigel -- See http://www.suspend2.net for Howtos, FAQs, mailing lists, wiki and bugzilla info.
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