Re: [PATCH] percpu: Allow to kill tasks doing pcpu_alloc() and waiting for pcpu_balance_workfn()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Mar 19 2018 - 11:15:00 EST


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 01:56:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > + if (!is_atomic) {
> > + if (gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL)
> > + mutex_lock(&pcpu_alloc_mutex);
> > + else if (mutex_lock_killable(&pcpu_alloc_mutex))
> > + return NULL;
> > + }
>
> It would benefit from a comment explaining why we're doing this (it's
> for the oom-killer).

And, yeah, this would be great. Kirill, can you please send a patch
to add a comment there?

Thanks.

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tejun