Re: [RFC 0/9] mce recovery for Sandy Bridge server

[Ingo Molnar]

* Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2011/5/25 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>:
>
> > Btw., the SIGKILL logic is probably overcomplicated: when it's 
> > clear that user-space can not recover why not do a do_exit() and 
> > be done with it? As long as it's called from a syscall level 
> > codepath and no locks/resources are held do_exit() can be called.
> 
> There is no SIGKILL  [...]

there is one here:

mm/memory-failure.c::kill_procs_ao()

                                force_sig(SIGKILL, tk->tsk);

Which can be reached from memory_failure() in certain (justified) 
circumstances.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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