linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

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Date:	Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:57:11 +0100
From:	Vladimir Murzin <murzin.v@...il.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	William Dauchy <wdauchy@...il.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	"Ma, Xindong" <xindong.ma@...el.com>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"rientjes@...gle.com" <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	"rusty@...tcorp.com.au" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Tu, Xiaobing" <xiaobing.tu@...el.com>, azurIt <azurit@...ox.sk>,
	Sameer Nanda <snanda@...omium.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, dserrg@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 01:00:18PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [CCing Oleg - the thread started here:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/28/2]
> 
> On Thu 28-11-13 09:41:40, William Dauchy wrote:
> [...]
> > However, I'm now wondering if this present patch is a replacement of
> > Sameer Nanda's patch or if this a complementary patch.
> 
> They are both trying to solve the same issue. Neither of them is
> optimal unfortunately. Oleg said he would look into this and I have seen
> some patches but didn't geto check them.

CCing Sergey - he reported and proposed the patch for the similar issue.

Vladimir

> 
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> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
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