Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 12:54:36 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> Subject: Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff Btw, I've been looking at why Andrea thinks he's patches are needed, because I looked very deep and the patches really shouldn't have made any real difference.. The reason - tadaam - is so silly that it's embarrassing. The thing is, that the things that should use GFP_USER don't. They use GFP_KERNEL instead, and that is sufficient to explain all the problems that Andrea saw. Becuase GFP_KERNEL will continue to allow allocations even after the freeing up of another page has failed. After fixing that in mm/memory.c and mm/filemap.c, the problem seems to be properly fixed. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/