On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

Currently, calling swap_out() on a zone doesn't count progress, and the
result can be that you swap_out() a lot of pages, and still return "no
progress possible" to try_to_free_pages(), which in turn makes a GFP_KERNEL
allocation fail (and that can kill init).

"makes GFP_KERNEL allocation fail" ?!?!?!

Who the fuck broke __alloc_pages() while I wasn't looking ?

Why don't you fix __alloc_pages() instead ?


Rik
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