linux-kernel - Re: [patch] oom: kill all threads that share mm with killed task

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Message-ID: <20070424054937.GA19966@holomorphy.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:49:37 -0700
From:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@...r.sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] oom: kill all threads that share mm with killed task

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:36:13PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> oom_kill_task() calls __oom_kill_task() to OOM kill a selected task.
> When finding other threads that share an mm with that task, we need to
> kill those individual threads and not the same one.

ISTR shooting down something of this form a while back. I suppose it
got resurrected.

Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@...cle.com>


-- wli
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