Re: [RFC] oom-kill: give the dying task a higher priority

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> > @@ -291,9 +309,10 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints,
> >  		 * Otherwise we could get an easy OOM deadlock.
> >  		 */
> >  		if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
> > -			if (p != current)
> > +			if (p != current) {
> > +				boost_dying_task_prio(p, mem);
> >  				return ERR_PTR(-1UL);
> > -
> > +			}
> >  			chosen = p;
> >  			*ppoints = ULONG_MAX;
> >  		}
> 
> This has the potential to actually make it harder to free memory if p is 
> waiting to acquire a writelock on mm->mmap_sem in the exit path while the 
> thread holding mm->mmap_sem is trying to run.

if p is waiting, changing prio have no effect. It continue tol wait to release mmap_sem.


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