Re: User space out of memory approach

Mauricio Lin
2005-01-26T14:04:07Z

Hi Andrea,

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:49:01 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:11:19PM -0400, Mauricio Lin wrote:
> > Sometimes the first application to be killed is XFree. AFAIK the
>
> This makes more sense now. You need somebody trapping sigterm in order
> to lockup and X sure traps it to recover the text console.
>
> Can you replace this:
>
> if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) {
> force_sig(SIGTERM, p);
> } else {
> force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
> }
>
> with this?

OK, let me test it. If I get some news, I will let you know.

>
> force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
>
> in mm/oom_kill.c.

BR,

Mauricio Lin.