Re: FYI: mmap_sem OOM patch

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Wed Jul 07 2010 - 21:11:32 EST


> Yup.
> If admins want to kill memory hogging process manually when the system
> is under heavy swap thrashing, we will face the same problem, need
> unfairness and fast exit. So, unfair exiting design looks very good.
>
> If you will updated the description, I'm glad :)

I have one more topic. can we check fatal_signal_pending() instead TIF_MEMDIE?
As I said, if the process received SIGKILL, do the fork/exec/brk/mmap
starvations have any problem?

Thanks.


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