Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 08:23:16PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > (2) Implement TIF_MEMDIE timeout. > > How about something like this? This should solve the deadlock problem > in the page allocator, but it would also simplify the memcg OOM killer > and allow its use by in-kernel faults again. Yes, basic idea would be same with http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=142002495532320&w=2 . But Michal and David do not like the timeout approach. http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=141684783713564&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=141686814824684&w=2 Unless they change their opinion in response to the discovery explained at http://lwn.net/Articles/627419/ , timeout patches will not be accepted. -- 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>