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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch v4 1/2] freezer: check OOM kill while being frozen
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:48:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2588099.AI1YmNFQ25@vostro.rjw.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140908222253.GB3806@mtj.dyndns.org>

On Tuesday, September 09, 2014 07:22:53 AM Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 11:53:34PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > But please tell me this: If TIF_MEMDIE is set and we thaw the process,
> > can it do *anything* before dying or will it die immediately?
> 
> The task could be in freezer from anywhere and there's no limit in
> what the task may do before it eventually dies.

Well, not exactly from anywhere.  Just from where try_to_freeze() is called
I suppose?

Which means that if this is a user space task, it won't to a lot before dying,
will it?

Rafael


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-08 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-04 22:30 Cong Wang
2014-09-04 22:30 ` [Patch v4 2/2] freezer: remove obsolete comments in __thaw_task() Cong Wang
2014-09-05  9:45   ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-05 14:09   ` Tejun Heo
2014-09-05 14:08 ` [Patch v4 1/2] freezer: check OOM kill while being frozen Tejun Heo
2014-09-05 16:31   ` Cong Wang
2014-09-05 18:00     ` Tejun Heo
2014-09-05 18:12       ` Cong Wang
2014-09-05 22:45         ` Tejun Heo
2014-09-05 23:32           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-08 17:40             ` Cong Wang
2014-09-08 20:54               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-08 20:58                 ` Cong Wang
2014-09-08 21:53                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-08 22:22                     ` Tejun Heo
2014-09-08 22:48                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2014-09-08 22:50                         ` Tejun Heo
2014-09-08 23:15                           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-08 23:00                             ` Cong Wang
2014-09-08 23:23                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-08 23:16                                 ` Cong Wang
2014-09-08 23:42                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-08 23:29                                     ` Cong Wang
2014-09-08 23:59                                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-10 20:30                                       ` Cong Wang
2014-09-10 23:38                                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-10 23:20                                           ` Cong Wang
2014-09-11 16:30                                         ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-12 23:59                                           ` Tejun Heo
2014-09-14 16:43                                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-15  0:56                                               ` Tejun Heo
2014-09-15  3:34                                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-15  9:36                                                   ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-16 22:55                                                     ` Cong Wang
2014-09-22  8:21                                                       ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-09 15:16                           ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-09 15:23                             ` Tejun Heo
2014-09-09 16:06                               ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-09 16:46                                 ` Tejun Heo
2014-09-09 17:12                                   ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-09 20:53                                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-10 13:24                                     ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-11 13:08                                       ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-11 14:17                                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-11 14:04                                           ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-11 14:26                                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-11 14:10                                               ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-11 14:32                                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-11 14:28                                                   ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-11 14:52                                                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-11 14:45                                                       ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-14 16:39                                                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-12 23:48                                       ` Tejun Heo
2014-09-15 14:28                                         ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-16  5:56                                           ` Tejun Heo
2014-09-09 20:48                               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-10  5:21                                 ` Cong Wang
2014-09-05 16:43   ` Cong Wang
2014-09-05 16:54     ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-15 11:22 ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-16 22:58   ` Cong Wang

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