On May 27, 2015, at 4:31 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 27 May 2015 15:22:50 Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: >> On (05/27/15 13:10), Minchan Kim wrote: >>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 08:29:59PM +0900, Jungseok Lee wrote: >>>> >>>> if (test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) >>>> goto nopage; >>>> >>>> IMHO, a reclaim operation would be not needed in this context if memory is >>>> allocated from vmalloc space. It means there is no need to traverse >>>> shrinker list. >>> >>> For making fork successful with using vmalloc, it's bandaid. > > Right.
Thanks for a clear feedback! It sounds like Catalin's idea should be considered seriously in ARM64 perspective. Best Regards Jungseok Lee-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
