Re: [patch] oom: kill all threads that share mm with killed task

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Apr 24 2007 - 01:50:28 EST


On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, David Rientjes wrote:

> oom_kill_task() calls __oom_kill_task() to OOM kill a selected task.
> When finding other threads that share an mm with that task, we need to
> kill those individual threads and not the same one.

Obvious fix. It was broken by

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f2a2a7108aa0039ba7a5fe7a0d2ecef2219a7584
Dec 7. So its in 2.6.20 and later. Candiate for stable?

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