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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


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