On 07/07, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Sun 03-07-16 17:18:29, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > [...] > > Or perhaps we can change oom_kill_process() to send SIGKILL to kthreads as > > well, this should not have any effect unless kthread does allow_signal(SIGKILL), > > then we can change vhost_worker() to catch SIGKILL and react somehow. Not sure > > this is really possible. > > But then we would have to check for the signal after every memory > access no? This sounds much more error prone than the test being wrapped > inside the copy_from... API to me. At least I agree this doesn't look nice too. 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>