> From: Oleg Nesterov [mailto:oleg@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 2:39 AM > To: Michal Hocko > Cc: William Dauchy; Johannes Weiner; Ma, Xindong; > akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx; rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Peter Zijlstra; > gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Tu, Xiaobing; azurIt; Sameer Nanda > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit > > On 11/28, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > They are both trying to solve the same issue. Neither of them is > > optimal unfortunately. > > yes, but this one doesn't look right. > > > Oleg said he would look into this and I have seen some patches but > > didn't geto check them. > > Only preparations so far. > > Oleg. I was not aware there's a long story for this issue. I hit this issue a lot of times during stress test and root caused it. After applying my patch, I did extensive test on 5 machines for a long time, it does not reproduced anymore so I submitted the patch. I will do more research on this issue. -- 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