Hello, On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 08:00:21PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > I meant, oom_kill can do this before thaw thaw_process(), afaics > > this should fix the particular race you described (but not others). > > This is what the follow up fix from David is doing. Check frozen in > select_bad_process if the task is TIF_MEMDIE and thaw the process. > > And it seems that the David's follow up fix is sufficient so let's leave > refrigerator alone. > Or am I still missing something? With pending freezer changes, allowing TIF_MEMDIE tasks to exit freezer by modifying freezing() shouldn't be difficult, which should be race-free and much simpler than diddling with thaw_task(). How urgent is this? Can we wait for the next merge window? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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>