On 2018/08/07 2:56, Michal Hocko wrote: > So the oom victim indeed passed the above force path after the oom > invocation. But later on hit the page fault path and that behaved > differently and for some reason the force path hasn't triggered. I am > wondering how could we hit the page fault path in the first place. The > task is already killed! So what the hell is going on here. > > I must be missing something obvious here. > YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY MISSING MY MAIL! I already said this is "mm, oom: task_will_free_mem(current) should ignore MMF_OOM_SKIP for once." problem which you are refusing at https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg133774.html . And you again ignored my mail. Very sad...