From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Andrea Argangeli <andrea@kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, oom: introduce oom reaper
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:00:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151217120004.b5f849e1613a3a367482b379@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxkzeqtxDY8KyR_FA+WKNkQXEHVA_zO8XhW6rqRr778Zw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:55:11 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 5:02 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > Ups. You are right. I will go with msleep_interruptible(100).
>
> I don't think that's right.
>
> If a signal happens, that loop is now (again) just busy-looping.
It's called only by a kernel thread so no signal_pending(). This
relationship is a bit unobvious and fragile, but we do it in quite a
few places.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-17 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-15 18:36 Michal Hocko
2015-12-17 0:50 ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-17 13:02 ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-17 19:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-12-17 20:00 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2015-12-18 11:54 ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-18 21:14 ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-21 8:38 ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-17 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-18 12:11 ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-18 12:10 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-12-20 7:14 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-12-18 0:15 ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-18 11:48 ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-21 20:38 ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-01-06 9:10 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-06 14:26 ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-01-06 15:00 ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-23 23:00 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-12-24 9:47 ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-24 11:06 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-12-24 20:39 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-12-25 11:41 ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-24 20:44 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-12-25 11:35 ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-25 11:44 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-06 15:42 [PATCH 0/2 -mm] oom reaper v4 Michal Hocko
2016-01-06 15:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm, oom: introduce oom reaper Michal Hocko
2016-01-07 11:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-01-07 12:30 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-11 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2016-01-12 8:16 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 1:28 ` David Rientjes
2016-01-28 21:42 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 3:02 ` David Rientjes
2016-02-02 8:57 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-02 11:48 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-02 22:55 ` David Rientjes
2016-02-02 22:51 ` David Rientjes
2016-02-03 10:31 ` Tetsuo Handa
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