> > Does the same apply to suspending? If so, why? > > Because I think it doesn't work anyway. User space processes are frozen and > effectively in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, so they won't be killed. > > > I think this is an OK change, as long as the only thing which is > > allocating memory is hibernation itself. If random processes are still > > doing random memory allocations at this time then their failed memory > > allocation could be just as fatal as an oom-killing. Moreso if they're > > s/bin/init or whatever. > > At this point all of the user space tasks are frozen. Well, many kernel threads still remain active. But it is true that OOM killer is unlikely to help. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
