From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ie0-f170.google.com (mail-ie0-f170.google.com [209.85.223.170]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704566B006C for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:40:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by iedfl3 with SMTP id fl3so33820298ied.1 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-ig0-x234.google.com (mail-ig0-x234.google.com. [2607:f8b0:4001:c05::234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f192si19736407iof.16.2015.04.28.15.40.25 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by igblo3 with SMTP id lo3so33620056igb.0 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:40:23 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] mm: oom_kill: remove unnecessary locking in exit_oom_victim() In-Reply-To: <1430161555-6058-6-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Message-ID: References: <1430161555-6058-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <1430161555-6058-6-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , Tetsuo Handa , Andrea Arcangeli , Dave Chinner , Vlastimil Babka , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Disabling the OOM killer needs to exclude allocators from entering, > not existing victims from exiting. > > Right now the only waiter is suspend code, which achieves quiescence > by disabling the OOM killer. But later on we want to add waits that > hold the lock instead to stop new victims from showing up. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner > Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: David Rientjes -- 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