Re: the new VMt

[Alan Cox]

> > Indeed. But we wont fail the kmalloc with a NULL return
> 
> Isn't that the preferred behaviour, though?  If we are completely out
> of VM on a no-swap machine, we should be killing one of the existing
> processes rather than preventing any progress and keeping all of the
> old tasks alive but deadlocked.

Unless Im missing something we wont kill any task in that condition - even
a SIGKILL will make no odds as everyone is asleep in kmalloc


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