From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com [216.82.243.55]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA7D6B002C for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:46:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hpaq13.eem.corp.google.com (hpaq13.eem.corp.google.com [172.25.149.13]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id p9BNkcL6003373 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:46:39 -0700 Received: from qyk7 (qyk7.prod.google.com [10.241.83.135]) by hpaq13.eem.corp.google.com with ESMTP id p9BNihcb017918 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:46:37 -0700 Received: by qyk7 with SMTP id 7so257345qyk.0 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:46:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:46:34 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [patch v2] oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen before deferring In-Reply-To: <20111011233914.GC6281@google.com> Message-ID: References: <20111011063336.GA23284@tiehlicka.suse.cz> <20111011233914.GC6281@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Tejun Heo Cc: Michal Hocko , KOSAKI Motohiro , Andrew Morton , Oleg Nesterov , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-mm@kvack.org 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. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org