linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] oom, memcg: handle sysctl oom_kill_allocating

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Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:12:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@...bao.com>
cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mhocko@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom, memcg: handle sysctl oom_kill_allocating_task while
 memcg oom happening

On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Sha Zhengju wrote:

> From: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@...bao.com>
> 
> Sysctl oom_kill_allocating_task enables or disables killing the OOM-triggering
> task in out-of-memory situations, but it only works on overall system-wide oom.
> But it's also a useful indication in memcg so we take it into consideration
> while oom happening in memcg. Other sysctl such as panic_on_oom has already
> been memcg-ware.
> 

You're working on an old kernel, mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() has moved to 
mm/memcontrol.c.  Please rebase on 3.7-rc1 and send an updated patch, 
which otherwise looks good.
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