On 05/20, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Fri 20-05-16 03:50:01, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > On 05/19, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > > > Long term I > > > would like to to move this logic into the mm_struct, it would be just > > > larger surgery I guess. > > > > Why we can't do this right now? Just another MMF_ flag set only once and > > never cleared. > > It is more complicated and so more error prone. Sure, but don't we want this anyway in the long term? > We have to sort out > shortcuts which get TIF_MEMDIE without killing first. Yes, but this seems a bit "off-topic" to me... but probably I do not understand the problem enough. > And we have that > nasty "mm shared between independant processes" case there. Yes, yes, please see another email. > If you feel that this step is not really worth it No, no. Unless I see something which looks "obviously wrong" to me, I won't argue with this (or any other) change as long as you and Tetsuo agree on it. I understand that it is veru easy to blame OOM-killer (and the changes in this area), but it is not easy to fix this code ;) Oleg. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>