linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V1] oom: avoid selecting threads sharing mm with init

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1310012048170.10383@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Oct 2013 20:52:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Ming Liu <ming.liu@...driver.com>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mhocko@...e.cz, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	hannes@...xchg.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1] oom: avoid selecting threads sharing mm with init

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013, Ming Liu wrote:

> I might mislead you, when I talked about init, I meant the pid 1 process but
> not the idle, and isn't the idle a kthread and has not this risk getting
> killed by oom?

You can disqualify for p->mm == &init_mm, but the oom killer has been 
rewritten since 2.6.27 so please post a log from a recent kernel that 
exhibits the problem.
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