From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261970AbTDXJC5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 05:02:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261977AbTDXJC4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 05:02:56 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:18856 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261970AbTDXJCu (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 05:02:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:14:54 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rml@tech9.net Subject: Re: 2.5.68-mm2 Message-ID: <20030424091454.GP8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rml@tech9.net References: <20030423012046.0535e4fd.akpm@digeo.com> <20030423095926.GJ8931@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030423095926.GJ8931@holomorphy.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:59:26AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > rml and I coordinated to put together a small patch (combining both > our own) for properly locking the static variables in out_of_memory(). > There's not any evidence things are going wrong here now, but it at > least addresses the visible lack of locking in out_of_memory(). > Applies cleanly to 2.5.68-mm2. Improved OOM killer behavior verified on 64GB i386. -- wli