Re: [patch v2] oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen before deferring

[David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Tejun Heo wrote:

> > If that's possible, then we can just add Tejun to add a follow-up patch to 
> > remove the thaw directly in the oom killer.  I'm thinking that won't be 
> > possible for 3.2, though, so I don't know why we'd remove 
> > oom-thaw-threads-if-oom-killed-thread-is-frozen-before-deferring.patch 
> > from -mm?
> 
> Yeah, it's a bit unclear.  All (or at least most) patches which were
> necessary for this patch was queued in Rafael's tree before korg went
> belly up and then we both lost track of the tree and I need to
> regenerate the tree and ask Rafael to pull again.

Eek, what a pain.

> I think the merge
> window is already too close, so please go ahead with the acked fix.
> Let's clean it up during the next devel cycle.
> 

Ok, sounds good.  When frozen oom killed threads can always move down the 
exit path, then we can just remember to remove the thaw_process() from the 
oom killer.

Thanks.

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