(2011/07/26 9:12), David Rientjes wrote: > After selecting a task to kill, the oom killer iterates all processes and > kills all other threads that share the same mm_struct in different thread > groups. It would not otherwise be helpful to kill a thread if its memory > would not be subsequently freed. > > A kernel thread, however, may assume a user thread's mm by using > use_mm(). This is only temporary and should not result in sending a > SIGKILL to that kthread. > > This patch ensures that only user threads and not kthreads are sent a > SIGKILL if they share the same mm_struct as the oom killed task. > > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Looks good. Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>