On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 08:32:08PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > Now, select_bad_process() have PF_KTHREAD check, but oom_kill_process > doesn't. It mean oom_kill_process() may choose wrong task, especially, > when the child are using use_mm(). Now oom_kill_process is called by three place. 1. mem_cgroup_out_of_memory 2. out_of_memory with sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task 3. out_of_memory with non-sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task I think it's no problem in 1 and 3 since select_bad_process already checks PF_KTHREAD. The problem in in 2. So How about put the check before calling oom_kill_process in case of sysctl_oom_kill_allocating task? if (sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task) { if (!current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) oom_kill_process(); It can remove duplicated PF_KTHREAD check in select_bad_process and oom_kill_process. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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>