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As we no longer use the shmemfs allocation directly, we do not expect to receive -ENOSPC from a backing store allocation. The potential sources for -ENOSPC are then our own internal eviction code, so the choice is either to kill the potential application with SIGBUS or to retry the faulthandler. In this patch we retry the fault handler, but since this is a should never happen condition, it is arguable that we gather up copious debug and kill the application. At worst, we cause an interruptible busy-wait, stalling the application -- all causes should be transient and the system should eventually recover. A small stall is hopefully a better outcome than random oomkiller. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200515200031.12034-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.