KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
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>>  > on heavy workload, call_usermodehelper() may failure
>>  > because it use kzmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC).
>>
>>  Better just fix it to not use GFP_ATOMIC in the first place.
> 
> Ah, makes sense.
> I'll try toi create that patch.

Thanks.

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> 
> but if GFP_KERNEL is used, We still need error check, IMHO.

Yes, but no retry (or if you're sure you cannot fail use __GFP_NOFAIL
too, but that is nasty because it has some risk of deadlock under severe
oom conditions)

-Andi


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