linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: android: lowmemorykiller: Don't wait more than one second for a process to die

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:31:20 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
Cc:	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	kernel-team@...roid.com, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: lowmemorykiller: Don't wait more than
 one second for a process to die

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:21:25PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> From: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>
> 
> If a process forked and the child process was killed by the
> lowmemorykiller, the lowmemory killer would be disabled until
> the parent process reaped the child or it died itself.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
> ---
> 
> Noticed that the patch is missing. Any reason for not wanting it
> in staging?

No, I must have missed this one, sorry about that.  Where was it that I
should have seen it?

I'll queue this up after 3.3-rc1 is out to get it into the final 3.3
release.

thanks,

greg k-h
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