Re: scheduler went mad?

[Szabolcs Szakacsits]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> This patch is broken, ignore it.
> Just removing wakeup_bdflush() is indeed correct.
> We already wakeup bdflush at try_to_free_buffers() anyway.

I still feel a bit unconfortable about processes looping forever in
__alloc_pages and because of this oom_killer also can't be moved to page
fault handler where I think its place should be. I'm using the patch
below.

	Szaka

--- mm/page_alloc.c.orig      Sat Mar 31 19:07:22 2001
+++ mm/page_alloc.c     Mon Apr  2 21:05:31 2001
@@ -453,8 +453,12 @@
                 */
                if (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) {
                        memory_pressure++;
-                       try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask);
-                       wakeup_bdflush(0);
+                       if (!try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask));
+                               return NULL;
                        goto try_again;
                }
        }