> Oh. This needs more thinking. Definitely the task sleeping in exit_mm() > must not exit until core_state->dumper->thread returns from do_coredump(). > If nothing else, the dumper can use its task_struct and it relies on > the stable core_thread->next list. And right now TASK_KILLABLE can't > work anyway, it is possible that fatal_signal_pending() is true. Yes, I was right to say this should be another thread. Let's not get into all this right now. I think it is mostly orthogonal to the oom_kill issue. Thanks, Roland -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>