linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] percpu: Allow to kill tasks doing pcpu_alloc() and waiting for pcpu_balance

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Date:   Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:14:47 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>, cl@...ux.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu: Allow to kill tasks doing pcpu_alloc() and
 waiting for pcpu_balance_workfn()

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 01:56:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +	if (!is_atomic) {
> > +		if (gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL)
> > +			mutex_lock(&pcpu_alloc_mutex);
> > +		else if (mutex_lock_killable(&pcpu_alloc_mutex))
> > +			return NULL;
> > +	}
> 
> It would benefit from a comment explaining why we're doing this (it's
> for the oom-killer).

And, yeah, this would be great.  Kirill, can you please send a patch
to add a comment there?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun