Re: [RFC PATCH] binder: Don't require the binder lock when killed in binder_thread_read()

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Apr 01 2017 - 02:49:27 EST


On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 02:00:13PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> BTW: I presume that nobody has decided that it would be a wise idea to
> pick the OOM reaper code back to any stable trees? It seemed a bit
> too scary to me, so I wrote a dumber (but easier to backport) solution
> that avoided the deadlocks I was seeing. http://crosreview.com/465189
> and the 3 patches above it in case anyone else stumbles on this thread
> and is curious.

What specific upstream OOM patches are you referring to? I'm always
glad to review patches for stable kernels, just email
stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx the git commit ids and we can take it from there.

thanks,

greg k-h