On 2016-05-13 11:37, Sebastian Frias wrote:
Hi Alan,
On 05/13/2016 05:04 PM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
Perhaps Sebastian's choice could be made to depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED,
rather than CONFIG_EXPERT?
Even if the overcommit behavior is different on those systems the
primary question hasn't been answered yet. Why cannot this be done from
the userspace? In other words what wouldn't work properly?
Most allocations in C have no mechanism to report failure.
Stakc expansion failure is not reportable. Copy on write failure is not
reportable and so on.
But wouldn't those affect a given process at at time?
Does that means that the OOM-killer is woken up to kill process X when those
situations arise on process Y?
Barring memory cgroups, if you have hit an OOM condition, it impacts the
entire system. Some process other than the one which first hit the
failure may get killed, but every process will fail allocations until
the situation is resolved.
