Re: [PATCH 5/9] mm: oom_kill: remove unnecessary locking in exit_oom_victim()

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On Mon, 27 Apr 2015, Johannes Weiner wrote:

> Disabling the OOM killer needs to exclude allocators from entering,
> not existing victims from exiting.
> 
> Right now the only waiter is suspend code, which achieves quiescence
> by disabling the OOM killer.  But later on we want to add waits that
> hold the lock instead to stop new victims from showing up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

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