From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pb0-f43.google.com (mail-pb0-f43.google.com [209.85.160.43]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC5766B00B4 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 20:27:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pb0-f43.google.com with SMTP id md4so8235334pbc.2 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:27:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from psmtp.com ([74.125.245.152]) by mx.google.com with SMTP id yh6si15590364pab.237.2013.11.05.17.27.32 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:27:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-pb0-f47.google.com with SMTP id rq13so4186933pbb.34 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:27:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 17:27:29 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: Fix race when selecting process to kill In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1383693987-14171-1-git-send-email-snanda@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Luigi Semenzato Cc: Sameer Nanda , Andrew Morton , mhocko@suse.cz, Johannes Weiner , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Luigi Semenzato wrote: > It's not enough to hold a reference to the task struct, because it can > still be taken out of the circular list of threads. The RCU > assumptions don't hold in that case. > Could you please post a proper bug report that isolates this at the cause? 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org