Well, kmem_cache_reap() doesn't even steal memory from anybody: it just
makes this "tagged for xxx" memory be available to "non-xxx" users too.
And the fact that we're calling do_try_to_free_pages() at all obviously
implies that even if we have memory free, it isn't in the right hands..
Linus
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