Re: [PATCH 5/8] mm,oom: Bring OOM notifier to outside of oom_lock.

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On Tue 03-07-18 23:25:06, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Since blocking_notifier_call_chain() in out_of_memory() might sleep,
> sleeping with oom_lock held is currently an unavoidable problem.

This is wrong. The problem is avoidable by simply removing the oom
notifiers as they are pure ugliness which we should have never allowed
to live in the first place.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs




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