linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rh6] mm: skip zombie in OOM-killer

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Date:	Sat, 05 Mar 2011 03:52:03 +0300
From:	"avagin@...il.com" <avagin@...il.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
CC:	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH rh6] mm: skip zombie in OOM-killer

On 03/05/2011 02:41 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Andrey Vagin wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
>> index 7dcca55..2fc554e 100644
>> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
>> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
>> @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned int *ppoints,
>>   		 * blocked waiting for another task which itself is waiting
>>   		 * for memory. Is there a better alternative?
>>   		 */
>> -		if (test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE))
>> +		if (test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE)&&  p->mm)
>>   			return ERR_PTR(-1UL);
>>
>>   		/*
>
> I think it would be better to just do
>
> 	if (!p->mm)
> 		continue;
>
> after the check for oom_unkillable_task() because everything that follows
> this really depends on p->mm being non-NULL to actually do anything
> useful.
Yes. You are right. Thank you.
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