From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753203Ab3JAWqQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Oct 2013 18:46:16 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f171.google.com ([209.85.192.171]:39037 "EHLO mail-pd0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752331Ab3JAWqN (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Oct 2013 18:46:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 15:46:10 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Sergey Dyasly cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , Rusty Russell , Sha Zhengju , Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: [PATCH] OOM killer: wait for tasks with pending SIGKILL to exit In-Reply-To: <20131001192640.ed55682d3113b00b402bbef5@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <1378740624-2456-1-git-send-email-dserrg@gmail.com> <20130911190605.5528ee4563272dbea1ed56a6@gmail.com> <20130927185833.6c72b77ab105d70d4996ebef@gmail.com> <20131001192640.ed55682d3113b00b402bbef5@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, Sergey Dyasly wrote: > If you are ok with the first change in my patch regarding fatal_signal_pending, > I can send new patch with just that change. > The entire patch is pointless, there's no need to give access to memory reserves simply because it is PF_EXITING. If it needs memory, it will call the oom killer itself.