Re: How to handle TIF_MEMDIE stalls?

Johannes Weiner
2015-02-16T15:42:13Z

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 08:23:16PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> (2) Implement TIF_MEMDIE timeout.

How about something like this? This should solve the deadlock problem
in the page allocator, but it would also simplify the memcg OOM killer
and allow its use by in-kernel faults again.

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