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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704232242580.5109@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:49:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] oom: kill all threads that share mm with killed task

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, 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.

Obvious fix. It was broken by
 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f2a2a7108aa0039ba7a5fe7a0d2ecef2219a7584
Dec 7. So its in 2.6.20 and later. Candiate for stable?

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