linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm, oom: refactor oom_kill

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Date:   Wed, 1 Aug 2018 13:32:06 -0400
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, kernel-team@...com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm, oom: refactor oom_kill_process()

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:00:59AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> oom_kill_process() consists of two logical parts: the first one is
> responsible for considering task's children as a potential victim and
> printing the debug information.  The second half is responsible for
> sending SIGKILL to all tasks sharing the mm struct with the given victim.
> 
> This commit splits oom_kill_process() with an intention to re-use the the
> second half: __oom_kill_process().
> 
> The cgroup-aware OOM killer will kill multiple tasks belonging to the
> victim cgroup.  We don't need to print the debug information for the each
> task, as well as play with task selection (considering task's children),
> so we can't use the existing oom_kill_process().
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171130152824.1591-2-guro@fb.com
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

This is pretty straight-forward.

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>