From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 261A46B01E2 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 02:40:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp ([10.0.50.72]) by fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp (Fujitsu Gateway) with ESMTP id o536ecHd025496 for (envelope-from kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com); Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:40:38 +0900 Received: from smail (m2 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 022C845DE51 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:40:38 +0900 (JST) Received: from s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.92]) by m2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8EC145DE4F for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:40:37 +0900 (JST) Received: from s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7761DB8038 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:40:37 +0900 (JST) Received: from ml14.s.css.fujitsu.com (ml14.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.249.87.104]) by s2.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CA0E08007 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:40:37 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:36:23 +0900 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/12] oom: remove PF_EXITING check completely Message-Id: <20100603153623.40875640.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20100603152436.7262.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20100603135106.7247.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100603152436.7262.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" , LKML , linux-mm , Oleg Nesterov , David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin List-ID: On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:25:18 +0900 (JST) KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > Currently, PF_EXITING check is completely broken. because 1) It only > care main-thread and ignore sub-threads 2) If user enable core-dump > feature, it can makes deadlock because the task during coredump ignore > SIGKILL. > > The deadlock is certenaly worst result, then, minor PF_EXITING > optimization worth is relatively ignorable. > > This patch removes it. > > Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro > Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org