On Thu 25-06-15 16:54:23, Nikolay Borisov wrote: > > > On 06/25/2015 04:45 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > memcg oom killer ignores oom_kill_allocating_task so the victim might be > > different from the current task. That means the victim might get stuck > > behind a lock held by somebody else. If the ext4 journaling code depends > > on memcg charges and retry endlessly then the waiters would get stuck as > > well. > > I've patched the cgroup OOM so that it takes into account the > oom_kill_allocating_task. I am not very much keen on this configuration because it behaves very randomly and I am pretty sure it will just paper over the real issue here. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
