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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03 of 11] prevent oom deadlocks during read/write operations
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:26:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080107192640.GO10749@v2.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801071115210.23617@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:15:49AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> This means that killing a process with SIGKILL from user land may lead to 
> OOM handling being triggered in the VM?

Well, Andrew added the status=-ENOMEM in his version, but userland
should never get to see the status. So this should only have the
effect of being more reactive to SIGKILL. Alternatively TIF_MEMDIE
could be checked, but checking sigkill sounded nicer there.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-07 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-03  2:09 [PATCH 00 of 11] oom deadlock fixes Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-03  2:09 ` [PATCH 01 of 11] limit shrink zone scanning Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-07 19:11   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-03  2:09 ` [PATCH 02 of 11] avoid oom deadlock in nfs_create_request Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-07 19:13   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-03  2:09 ` [PATCH 03 of 11] prevent oom deadlocks during read/write operations Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-07 19:15   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-07 19:26     ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2008-01-03  2:09 ` [PATCH 04 of 11] avoid selecting already killed tasks Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-03  9:40   ` David Rientjes
2008-01-03 13:41     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-03 18:47       ` David Rientjes
2008-01-03 19:54         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-03 20:49           ` David Rientjes
2008-01-07 19:17   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-03  2:09 ` [PATCH 05 of 11] reduce the probability of an OOM livelock Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-07 19:32   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-03  2:09 ` [PATCH 06 of 11] balance_pgdat doesn't return the number of pages freed Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-07 19:33   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-03  2:09 ` [PATCH 07 of 11] don't depend on PF_EXITING tasks to go away Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-03  9:52   ` David Rientjes
2008-01-03 13:29     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-03  2:09 ` [PATCH 08 of 11] stop useless vm trashing while we wait the TIF_MEMDIE task to exit Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-03  2:09 ` [PATCH 09 of 11] oom select should only take rss into account Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-07 19:35   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-03  2:09 ` [PATCH 10 of 11] limit reclaim if enough pages have been freed Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-07 19:37   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-08  7:28     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-03  2:09 ` [PATCH 11 of 11] not-wait-memdie Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-03  9:55   ` David Rientjes
2008-01-03 13:06     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-03 18:54       ` David Rientjes
2008-01-07 19:43   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-08  1:57     ` David Rientjes
2008-01-08  3:25       ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08  3:37         ` David Rientjes
2008-01-08  7:42           ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08  7:45         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-08  7:37       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-08  7:31     ` Andrea Arcangeli

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