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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:49:37 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] oom: kill all threads that share mm with killed task
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:36:13PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> oom_kill_task() calls __oom_kill_task() to OOM kill a selected task.
> When finding other threads that share an mm with that task, we need to
> kill those individual threads and not the same one.

ISTR shooting down something of this form a while back. I suppose it
got resurrected.

Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>


-- wli