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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 16:00:41 -0700 From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, 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 Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote: > On Tuesday, September 09, 2014 07:50:12 AM Tejun Heo wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:48:28AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> > Well, not exactly from anywhere. Just from where try_to_freeze() is called >> > I suppose? >> >> Yeap, anywhere try_to_freeze() may be called. >> >> > Which means that if this is a user space task, it won't to a lot before dying, >> > will it? >> >> Userland tasks aren't likely to a lot of damages before dying but then >> again there's no guarantee. As it currently stands, try_to_freeze() >> can be anywhere. > > Well, in that case the TIF_MEMDIE test alone is not sufficient in my opinion, > because we can't guarantee that the task will not do something it was frozen > to prevent it from doing. > > That is true, there is a small window between TIF_MEMDIE is set and SIGKILL is handled (aka process is killed), but this seems to be a general signal handling issue not related with freezer after all OOM relies on SIGKILL to function. No? -- 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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