From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ea0-f174.google.com (mail-ea0-f174.google.com [209.85.215.174]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276166B003B for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:12:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ea0-f174.google.com with SMTP id b10so8924911eae.5 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 06:12:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com. [209.132.183.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id r3si26382994eep.265.2013.12.02.06.11.59 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 06:12:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 15:12:03 +0100 From: Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit Message-ID: <20131202141203.GA31402@redhat.com> References: <3917C05D9F83184EAA45CE249FF1B1DD0253093A@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> <20131128063505.GN3556@cmpxchg.org> <20131128120018.GL2761@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20131128183830.GD20740@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131128183830.GD20740@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: William Dauchy , Johannes Weiner , "Ma, Xindong" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "rientjes@google.com" , "rusty@rustcorp.com.au" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Peter Zijlstra , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "Tu, Xiaobing" , azurIt , Sameer Nanda On 11/28, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > On 11/28, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > They are both trying to solve the same issue. Neither of them is > > optimal unfortunately. > > yes, but this one doesn't look right. > > > Oleg said he would look into this and I have seen > > some patches but didn't geto check them. > > Only preparations so far. OK, I am going to send the initial fixes today. This means (I hope) that we do not need this or Sameer's "[PATCH] mm, oom: Fix race when selecting process to kill". Oleg. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org