From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615416B01D2 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 02:32:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kpbe18.cbf.corp.google.com (kpbe18.cbf.corp.google.com [172.25.105.82]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id o596Wbq2028101 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 23:32:37 -0700 Received: from pxi6 (pxi6.prod.google.com [10.243.27.6]) by kpbe18.cbf.corp.google.com with ESMTP id o596WZUn032079 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 23:32:36 -0700 Received: by pxi6 with SMTP id 6so2449971pxi.1 for ; Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 23:32:27 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [patch 06/18] oom: avoid sending exiting tasks a SIGKILL In-Reply-To: <20100608202611.GA11284@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20100608202611.GA11284@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , Nick Piggin , Balbir Singh , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > It's unnecessary to SIGKILL a task that is already PF_EXITING > > This probably needs some explanation. PF_EXITING doesn't necessarily > mean this process is exiting. > I hope that my sentence didn't imply that it was, the point is that sending a SIGKILL to a PF_EXITING task isn't necessary to make it exit, it's already along the right path. -- 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