On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Ming Liu wrote: > After selecting a task to kill, the oom killer iterates all processes and > kills all other user threads that share the same mm_struct in different > thread groups. > > But in some extreme cases, the selected task happens to be a vfork child > of init process sharing the same mm_struct with it, which causes kernel > panic on init getting killed. This panic is observed in a busybox shell > that busybox itself is init, with a kthread keeps consuming memories. > We shouldn't be selecting a process where mm == init_mm in the first place, so this wouldn't fix the issue entirely. -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>