Re: [PATCH 1/2 (repost)] mm: serialize OOM kill operations

[Andrew Morton]

Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Adding a 'oom_notify' bitfield after the existing 'dumpable'
> bitfield in mm_struct would save that slot:
> 
>         unsigned dumpable:2;
> 	unsigned oom_notify:1;

Note that these will occupy the same machine word.  So they'll need
locking.  (Good luck trying to demonstrate the race though!)

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