From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ee0-f43.google.com (mail-ee0-f43.google.com [74.125.83.43]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06E16B003A for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:29:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ee0-f43.google.com with SMTP id c13so3488249eek.30 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 09:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com. [209.132.183.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id a9si9892399eew.75.2013.12.05.09.29.00 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 09:29:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:29:31 +0100 From: Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit Message-ID: <20131205172931.GA26018@redhat.com> References: <3917C05D9F83184EAA45CE249FF1B1DD0253093A@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> <20131128063505.GN3556@cmpxchg.org> <20131128120018.GL2761@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20131128183830.GD20740@redhat.com> <20131202141203.GA31402@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Michal Hocko , William Dauchy , Johannes Weiner , "Ma, Xindong" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "rusty@rustcorp.com.au" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Peter Zijlstra , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "Tu, Xiaobing" , azurIt , Sameer Nanda On 12/04, David Rientjes wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > 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". > > Your v2 series looks good and I suspect anybody trying them doesn't have > additional reports of the infinite loop? Should they be marked for > stable? Unlikely... I think the patch from Sameer makes more sense for stable as a temporary (and obviously incomplete) fix. 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