On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Dan Aloni wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible that OOM isn't handled very well if say, my entire > file system structure is on a USB storage device? > > I'm not an expert on this particular matter but I'm pretty sure > that I noticed GFP_KERNEL allocation being done on the write-out > path in the usb-storage kernel thread, leading to a deadlock > during OOM.
Can you be any more specific than that? usb-storage should use only GFP_NOIO in its I/O paths. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
