Re: [patch -mm v2 04/10] oom: remove special handling for pagefault ooms

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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 01:50:04 -0800 (PST)
David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> 
> > About the _changes_ for generic part itself, I have no concerns.
> > 
> 
> Is that your acked-by?
> 
Anyway, I think you'll repost. I'll see again. feel free to CC me.


> > But I'm not sure whether TIF_MEMDIE task has been already killed (quit tasklist)
> > before VM_FAULT_OOM task comes here.
> > 
> 
> If it's no longer a member of the tasklist then it has freed its memory 
> and thus returning VM_FAULT_OOM again would mean that we are still oom.
> 
My concern was multi-threaded task with ignoring SIGCHLD..but after looking into
page allocatoer again, I think you're right. Thanks.

Thanks,
-Kame

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