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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:57:04 +0200 From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz> To: Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] protect architectures where THREAD_SIZE >= PAGE_SIZE against fork bombs On Tue 21-08-12 13:40:45, Glauber Costa wrote: > On 08/21/2012 01:35 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > I am asking because this should trigger memcg-oom > > but that one will usually pick up something else than the fork bomb > > which would have a small memory footprint. But that needs to be handled > > on the oom level obviously. > > > Sure, but keep in mind that the main protection is against tasks *not* > in this memcg. Yes and that's is good step forward. I just wanted to mention that we still have the problem inside the subhierarchy. The changelog was not specific enough. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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