On Wed 05-11-14 14:31:00, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 05-11-14 08:02:47, Tejun Heo wrote: [...] > > Also, why isn't this part of > > oom_killer_disable/enable()? The way they're implemented is really > > silly now. It just sets a flag and returns whether there's a > > currently running instance or not. How were these even useful? > > Why can't you just make disable/enable to what they were supposed to > > do from the beginning? > > Because then we would block all the potential allocators coming from > workqueues or kernel threads which are not frozen yet rather than fail > the allocation. After thinking about this more it would be doable by using trylock in the allocation oom path. I will respin the patch. The API will be cleaner this way. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>