Re: [patch] oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen before deferring

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:41:25AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:

quoted

With pending freezer changes, allowing TIF_MEMDIE tasks to exit
freezer by modifying freezing() shouldn't be difficult, which should
be race-free and much simpler than diddling with thaw_task().  

Will the rework help with the initial problem of unkillable OOM selected
frozen tasks or it will just help with other races that might be present
with the patch? In other words will this work deprecate the 2 patches
sent earlier in this thread?

I think it shouldn't be difficult to allow OOM-killing frozen tasks.
That should be good enough, right?

quoted

How urgent is this?  Can we wait for the next merge window?

Yes, I think we can wait some more.

I'm still processing rather large backlog.  I'll ping you back once I
sort out the pending freezer changes.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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