On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 00:43 -0700, Greg Thelen wrote:
> Since commit 5cec38ac866b ("fs, seq_file: fallback to vmalloc instead of
> oom kill processes") seq_buf_alloc() avoids calling the oom killer for
> PAGE_SIZE or smaller allocations; but larger allocations can use the oom
> killer via vmalloc()
Since commit 5cec38ac866b ("fs, seq_file: fallback to vmalloc instead of
oom kill processes") seq_buf_alloc() avoids calling the oom killer for
PAGE_SIZE or smaller allocations; but larger allocations can use the oom
killer via vmalloc(). Thus reads of small files can return ENOMEM, but
larger fil
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