Hi, sorry for the late reply but I was on vacation last week. On Sat 08-10-11 03:23:15, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > 2011/10/7 David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > If a thread has been oom killed and is frozen, thaw it before returning > > to the page allocator. Otherwise, it can stay frozen indefinitely and > > no memory will be freed. > > > > Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > v2: adds the missing header file include, the resend patch was based on a > > previous patch from Michal that is no longer needed if this is > > applied. > > Looks ok to me. > Michal, do you agree this patch? The patch looks good but we still need other 2 patches (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/68578), right? Anyway, I thought that we agreed on the other approach suggested by Tejun (make frozen tasks oom killable without thawing). Even in that case we want the first patch (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/68576). -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX s.r.o. Lihovarska 1060/12 190 00 Praha 9 Czech Republic -- 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>