On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 09:19:48PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Hello. > > Should selected_tasksize be added to rem even when TIF_MEMDIE was not set? > > Please see a thread from http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg93246.html > if you want to know why to reverse the order. > ---------------------------------------- > >From 2d4cc11d8128e4c1397631b91fea78da3eaefb47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:52:39 +0900 > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] android, lmk: Reverse the order of setting TIF_MEMDIE and sending SIGKILL. > > If we set TIF_MEMDIE before sending SIGKILL, memory reserves could be > spent for allocations which are not needed for terminating the victim. > Reverse the order as with oom_kill_process() does. I can't take a patch that I have to hand-edit in order to apply it :( And if we aren't taking patch 1/2, I guess this one isn't needed either? thanks, greg k-h -- 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>