Re: [PATCH -mm v2 1/3] mm/oom_kill: remove the wrong fatal_signal_pending() check in oom_kill_process()

From: David Rientjes
Date: Wed Sep 30 2015 - 17:14:50 EST


On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> The fatal_signal_pending() was added to suppress unnecessary "sharing
> same memory" message, but it can't 100% help anyway because it can be
> false-negative; SIGKILL can be already dequeued.
>
> And worse, it can be false-positive due to exec or coredump. exec is
> mostly fine, but coredump is not. It is possible that the group leader
> has the pending SIGKILL because its sub-thread originated the coredump,
> in this case we must not skip this process.
>
> We could probably add the additional ->group_exit_task check but this
> pach just removes the wrong check along with pr_info().
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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