linux-kernel - Re: Please backport commit 3812c8c8f39 to stable

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Message-ID: <CAM_iQpXappi5bnj=QriLxuhxdQ4=et3pHa7hUkLFjD_+D_bfKQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 3 Oct 2014 13:36:56 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please backport commit 3812c8c8f39 to stable

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Why not? OOM killer tries to kill a process sleeping on a mutex it already
> holds, why not a deadlock? Given the fact that both are lots of inode mutex
> hung because of OOM, I am 90% sure they are the same.
>

I backported these patches to 3.10 and can't reproduce the bug with the
script any more.
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