On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > David is making changes using timeout based back off (in linux-next.git) > which is inappropriately trying to use MMF_UNSTABLE for two purposes. > If you believe there is a problem with the use of MMF_UNSTABLE as it sits in -mm, please follow up directly in the thread that proposed the patch. I have seen two replies to that thread from you: one that incorporates it into your work, and one that links to a verison of my patch in your patchset. I haven't seen a concern raised about the use of MMF_UNSTABLE, but perhaps it's somewhere in the 10,000 other emails about the oom killer.