linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/7] arch: mm: remove obsolete init OOM protection

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Date:	Tue, 6 Aug 2013 12:04:48 +0530
From:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	azurIt <azurit@...ox.sk>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <x86@...nel.org>,
	<linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] arch: mm: remove obsolete init OOM protection

Hi Johannes,

Thk for the cleanup.

On 08/03/2013 10:29 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Back before smart OOM killing, when faulting tasks where killed
> directly on allocation failures, the arch-specific fault handlers
> needed special protection for the init process.
> 
> Now that all fault handlers call into the generic OOM killer (609838c
> "mm: invoke oom-killer from remaining unconverted page fault
> handlers"), which already provides init protection, the arch-specific
> leftovers can be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  arch/arc/mm/fault.c   | 5 -----
>  arch/score/mm/fault.c | 6 ------
>  arch/tile/mm/fault.c  | 6 ------
>  3 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>  [arch/arc bits]

-Vineet
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