linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/9] oom: oom_kill_process() need to check p is unkillable

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1006211301110.8367@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:04:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] oom: oom_kill_process() need to check p is
 unkillable

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> > > When oom_kill_allocating_task is enabled, an argument task of
> > > oom_kill_process is not selected by select_bad_process(), It's
> > > just out_of_memory() caller task. It mean the task can be
> > > unkillable. check it first.
> > > 
> > 
> > This should be unnecessary if oom_kill_process() appropriately returns 
> > non-zero when it cannot kill a task.  What problem are you addressing with 
> > this fix?
> 
> oom_kill_process() only check its children are unkillable, not its own.

No, oom_kill_process() returns the value of oom_kill_task(victim) which is 
non-zero for !victim->mm in mmotm-2010-06-11-16-40 (and 2.6.34 although 
victim == p in that case).
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