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Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:48:28 +0200 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net> To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [Patch v4 1/2] freezer: check OOM kill while being frozen On Tuesday, September 09, 2014 07:22:53 AM Tejun Heo wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 11:53:34PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > But please tell me this: If TIF_MEMDIE is set and we thaw the process, > > can it do *anything* before dying or will it die immediately? > > The task could be in freezer from anywhere and there's no limit in > what the task may do before it eventually dies. Well, not exactly from anywhere. Just from where try_to_freeze() is called I suppose? Which means that if this is a user space task, it won't to a lot before dying, will it? Rafael -- 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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