From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753362AbdHJUgX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:36:23 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:51011 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753017AbdHJUgW (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:36:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 22:36:18 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andrew Morton , Tetsuo Handa , David Rientjes , Oleg Nesterov , Andrea Argangeli , Hugh Dickins , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: allow oom reaper to race with exit_mmap Message-ID: <20170810203616.GA17766@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20170810081632.31265-1-mhocko@kernel.org> <20170810180554.GT25347@redhat.com> <20170810185138.GA8269@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170810185138.GA8269@dhcp22.suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu 10-08-17 20:51:38, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > OK, let's agree to disagree. As I've said I like when the critical > section is explicit and we _know_ what it protects. In this case it is > clear that we have to protect from the page tables tear down and the > vma destructions. But as I've said I am not going to argue about this > more. It is more important to finally fix this. Now that I've reread, it may sound different than I thought. I meant to say that I will not argue about which solution is better and both patches are good to go. I will let others to decide but I would be glad if we go with something finally. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs