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Date:   Thu, 9 Jun 2022 17:54:07 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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On Thu 09-06-22 17:22:14, Christian König wrote:
[...]
> Those files were never part of any filesystem in the first place, so by
> killing all the process referencing them you can indeed free the memory
> locked by them.

Yes, this would require the oom killer to understand that all processes
referencing that file are killed. Theoretically possible but I am not
sure a feasible solution.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs