linux-kernel - Re: can't oom-kill zap the victim's memory?

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFzWP5X7pnhttr-uGnJCcRkNoJjdhHdWfAcrOKSrBm39SA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 2015 09:55:46 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Kyle Walker <kwalker@...hat.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stanislav Kozina <skozina@...hat.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: can't oom-kill zap the victim's memory?

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> I must have missed something. I can't understand your and Michal's
> concerns.

Heh.  I looked at that patch, and apparently entirely missed the
queue_work() part of the whole patch, thinking it was a direct call.

So never mind.

                Linus
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