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RE: offline elfutils processing committed
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua dot i dot stone at intel dot com>
- Cc: "Martin Hunt" <hunt at redhat dot com>, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>, <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:41:04 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: RE: offline elfutils processing committed
> The goal is fine, but I don't think this accomplishes it. My
> understanding is that __alloc_pages will keep calling OOM until it is
> able to satisfy the request -- thus the module is blocked waiting for
> memory.
It looks like that can be avoided with the __GFP_NORETRY flag.