On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Michal Hocko wrote: > > What exactly would you like to see? > > How often do you see PF_EXITING tasks which haven't been killed causing > a pointless notification? Because fatal_signal_pending and TIF_MEMDIE > cases are already handled because we bypass charges in those cases (except > for user OOM killer killed tasks which don't get TIF_MEMDIE and that > should be fixed). > Triggering a pointless notification with PF_EXITING is rare, yet one pointless notification can be avoided with the patch. Additionally, it also avoids a pointless notification for a racing SIGKILL. -- 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>