Re: [PATCH] oom killer: break from infinite loop

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 03/29, anfei wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 06:28:21PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 03/28, anfei wrote:
> > >
> > > Assume thread A and B are in the same group.  If A runs into the oom,
> > > and selects B as the victim, B won't exit because at least in exit_mm(),
> > > it can not get the mm->mmap_sem semaphore which A has already got.
> >
> > I see. But still I can't understand. To me, the problem is not that
> > B can't exit, the problem is that A doesn't know it should exit. All
>
> If B can exit, its memory will be freed,

Which memory? I thought, we are talking about the memory used by ->mm ?

Oleg.

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