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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 13:00:18 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit
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[CCing Oleg - the thread started here:
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On Thu 28-11-13 09:41:40, William Dauchy wrote:
[...]
> However, I'm now wondering if this present patch is a replacement of
> Sameer Nanda's patch or if this a complementary patch.

They are both trying to solve the same issue. Neither of them is
optimal unfortunately. Oleg said he would look into this and I have seen
some patches but didn't geto check them.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs