On Sun, 6 Sep 2015, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > It was observed that setting TIF_MEMDIE before sending SIGKILL at > oom_kill_process() allows memory reserves to be depleted by allocations > which are not needed for terminating the OOM victim. > I don't understand what you are trying to fix. Sending a SIGKILL first does not guarantee that it is handling that signal before accessing memory reserves. I have no objection to the patch, but I don't think it actually matters either way and is relatively pointless. -- 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>