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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] userspace out of memory handling
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:49:23 -0500
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To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>, Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org

On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 07:58:38PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> This patchset implements userspace out of memory handling.
> 
> It is based on v3.14-rc5.  Individual patches will apply cleanly or you
> may pull the entire series from
> 
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rientjes/linux.git mm/oom
> 
> When the system or a memcg is oom, processes running on that system or
> attached to that memcg cannot allocate memory.  It is impossible for a
> process to reliably handle the oom condition from userspace.

ISTR the conclusion last time was nack on the whole approach.  What
changed between then and now?  I can't detect any fundamental changes
from the description.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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