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Andrew Morton authored
The token-based thrashing control patches introduced a problem: when a task which doesn't hold the token tries to run direct-reclaim, that task is told that pages which belong to the token-holding mm are referenced, even though they are not. This means that it is possible for a huge number of a non-token-holding mm's pages to be scanned to no effect. Eventually, we give up and go and oom-kill something. So the patch arranges for the thrashing control logic to be defeated if the caller has reached the highest level of scanning priority. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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